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Alfred E. Smith of New York. "After dinner, in the study with the men, Al Smith was at his best. He is a great actor; not a heel comedian like Willie Collier, who stands in one spot and gets his effect, but an all-over-the-lot acrobatic performer like Douglas Fairbanks. He gets out on the floor and acts out his scenes, puts his hands on the arms of your chair, shakes his fist at an imaginary enemy, and sinks into exhausted laughter at the end of his own story. His best ones were about prohibition...
...Jeremy Collier, Bishop of the English Church in the early 18th Century? he who helped to purge the vicious stage of the Restoration by his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage?would turn completely over in his grave if he could read the comment of The Churchman (organ of the P. E. Church) on the present incident...
...Collier '24, former member of the Executive Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and one of the leading actors of both the Dramatic and the PI Eta Clubs, has taken up a professional stage career...
...earnest desire, his father secured him a berth on a French collier, sailing from Marseilles. From then until 1895 he lived upon the sea. At first, he served on French vessels; later, aboard English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same...
...printing plant of Collier's Weekly, for many years located in Manhattan, is moving west to Springfield, Ohio. The editorial and business departments remain behind. Lower postage charges and an open shop are two of the chief factors prompting the movement. This is said to be the ninth magazine to leave Manhattan in 18 months. Other prominent magazines to move west were the Hearst publications, which went to Chicago and McCall's which went to Dayton. Westward the star of printing takes...