Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advocate on the technique of modern football, on the teaching of literature at Harvard, on the decline of the discussion-group idea here to select a few topics offhand. If the editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should be not merely to embalm choice literary productions, but rather to stimulate discussion, to contribute definitely to undergraduate intellectual life...
...concert of the Harvard Glee Club in New York was a far cry from the traditional musical club events of the past, with their comic glees and their tinkling mandolins. The Harvard club sang a most taxing program, running from unaccompanied music of the early Roman Church down through the best music of the Romanticists and the moderns. The singing of the club was a revelation in male chorus work--equal, in fact, to any male chorus singing by amateurs that the writer has ever heard. What is more, the approval of the audience for the singing of the club...
Proving that the negro has real dramatic as well as comic ability in the theatre, the Provincetown Players in New York have cast Charles S. Gilpin, a negro actor, in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones...
...prize-fighter, and had retired from the ring as lightweight champion of the world under the name of "Gunboat Williams." Into this atmosphere, thick with rock-bound English traditions and customs. William introduces his slangy, breezy, Americanized presence, and thus furnishes the material for three acts of comic dialogue and situations, which approaches a sort of unintentional horse-play toward...
...Jimmie Barry present a humorous and well-acted skit, "The Rube." The Baroness de Hollub (Harriett Lorraine) is most entertaining in a comic sketch with Harry Crawford entitled "Fifty Loves." Songs, dances, a running fire of jokes, and an exhibition of different types of vamping compose this act, which receives considerable applause...