Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual white horse and dog tableau was well replaced by Maria Lo's "Porcelains", while the ice dancing was this time in a weird spectacle Behind the Masque...
This week's show at Keith's is exceptionally entertaining. From the trained dog bricklayers of Leon Gautier to Madame Rialta's dance act never a moment lags. The leading attraction is of course, Ted Lewis and "the best band in the land"; no comment is needed. Val and Ernie Stanton contribute an extraordinarily garbled dialogue with a harmonica-ukelele duet thrown in. Frank van Hoven keeps the house in a continual uproar by his conversational method of doing sleight-of-hand. With the aid of three small boys he stages a remarkable hubbub--the best laugh producer...
...other two pictures on the bill are both comedies; one presents Viola Dana in "Home Stuff"; the other is a refined slap-stick comedy blessed with the vague name "Sneakers". The appearance on the title of the latter of a picture of a young child and a dog, leads one to believe that it is a picture of youthful adventure, but it turns out to be a tale of married life, concerned chiefly with the doings of the husband and wife in a society gambling house. "Home Stuff" is an unsatisfactory attempt to make a comedy...
...athletics by installing a staff of chemists to cooperate with the coaches of mere fundamentals and tactics. When Connecticut soil is restored with lime, and when vetches, soy beans, field peas, clover and alfalfa furnish the needed nitrogen to farms and pastures in that state, then the Bull-dog can growl in his deepest bass--"Harvard, Good-night...
...course there must be. It is that quality of mind which in its best is Harvard's most precious jewel and which at its worst is her least attractive characteristic. "Harvard Indifference" was a bone of contention before the Civil War', in the days when Theodore Roosevelt drove a dog cart around the Yard, and in my own time, twenty-five years ago. As to challenging its existence--one might as well attempt to deny successfully that there was any difference between the general atmosphere surrounding the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Methodist Revivalist...