Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simplicity and directness of attack on a full-length play diffuse the cumulative effect. His playing is characteristic. Elliott Nugent contrives miraculously to look and talk in a manner actually reminiscent of college boys. Ruth Nugent is pretty and Mary Shaw gives a notable performance as the Irish cook...
Toward the end of the second act, the novelist father discovers that his cook is his own mother. Previously, it seems, he has been a humble and happily ignorant Irish youth with an itch to write stories. He made money easily enough, but was always worried about the college education he had missed. His son was to go to college and proceed from there to the composition of deathless literature instead of the ephemeral magazine humor which paid the family bills so promptly. The son preferred business. Only his affection for a girl who could write palliated his father...
...plot involved in the production is not very weighty ballast. Lady Huntworth, the defendant in a recent divorce case, seeks retirement in the disguise of a cook in the home of an elderly ulcar. Here she makes a real success, turning out fascinating edibles and causing queer vibrations in the hearts of the male population. Among these is Captain Dovaston, who is preparing to carry out the dying wish of his old leader, Colonel Pillenger, by marrying Lucy Pillenger, his daughter. Lusy upsets this arrangement by a runaway marriage with a young curate, and the captain hurries off to find...
...teamplay of Cornell's green eleven was ragged and its defense was poor MacKinnon's defensive play and Dorman's kicking stood out for the Crimson. Harvard Cornell Thomas g. g. Diehmer Tarnowsky r.f.b. r.f.b. Stewart Sullivan l.f.b. l.f.b. Ivanhoff MacKinnon r.h.b. r.h.b. Toukonogy Purdy, e.h.b. c.h.b. Cook Pattison l.h.b. l.h.b. Mann Gans, Smith or. o.r. Chestnut Crooks, Rubin i.r. i.r. Bacon, Miller Trevvett e.f. c.f. Howditch Fordyce i.l. i.l. Bacon Dorman o.l. o.l. Shaw...
There were several old players at the field including John K. Kilpatrick, Ralph Bloomer, Morris Ely, George Goss, Ted Lilley, Jack Field, "Cupie" Black., Eli Cutler and Dan Cook...