Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith's Rally Day. Girls from each class gather in the Metropolitan Opera House, wearing costumes, and compete with serious and comic songs based on central themes like Mother Goose or the Arabian Nights...
...stage on either side of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Composer Howard Hanson was there to conduct, waving his angular arms about to build up choral climaxes which helped atone for the weak orchestral moments. The Puritans' rugged, hymnlike theme dominated but there was a fetching, comic interlude when the Cavaliers fed firewater to the Indians, prepared for a May Pole dance on Merry Mount. The love-motif for Wrestling Bradford sounded strangely like "Limehouse Blues...
...Morgan, the drunkard who in the course of the play is reformed by the tactics of a Mr. Romaine, the man in the service of the W.C.T.U., whose part is taken by E. H. Angert '35. W. B. Lovejoy '34, playing the part of Sample Swichell, the Yankee comic, relieves the tension in the play with his sharp quips at Simon Slade, the rum seller, played by W. W. Beardsley...
Died. Ernest Torrence, 54, cinemactor; of complications after an operation for gallstones: in Manhattan. Born in Scotland, he began his career as a concert pianist, later sang in London comic operas and musical comedies. He entered cinema in 1922 as the villain in Tol-able David, skyrocketed to fame in the part of rangy, gangling Bill Jackson (The Covered Wagon...
...17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous than most of its kind, may seem surprisingly lively to modern readers who put family albums on a level with comic strips. It will be of special interest to Chicagoans whose grandparents figure-not always to their advantage-in its sprightly pages...