Word: charlestoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copley Players yesterday afternoon gave a benefit performance of "Three Live Ghosts", the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the purchase of instruments for the Charleston State Prison band. The suit which Mr. E. E. Clive were in the part of Jimmy Gubbins was intended for a loose misfit, but such has been the change in style in masculine attire since the first production of the play that the balloon trousers and baggy coat would have made him feel at home in any college yard. But if Mr. Clive's costume was not convincing, his acting...
...haired cutie without the slightest trace of the female impersonator. He can dance. There is no doubt that he does dance. His dancing of Alger's "Hobby Horse Hop" stopped the opera completely and several hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about...
...They rehearse twice a day, for hours. Silvers tells me that no Hasty Pudding chorus ever worked so hard before. But that's what makes them good. They're doing all the latest steps, 'the Charleston' and others...
...forget the dancing of the principals, for it's as good as most of that in our show. Wilson, for instance, who is playing the stenographer, is doing 'the Charleston' as well as anyone I've ever seen...
...penstroke took place some time ago, but publicity was just achieved. The five new monuments are: 1) Fort Wood on Bechloe's Island in New York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River, taken during the Civil War by Union troops after being pounded to pieces by some of the first...