Word: elocutionist
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...President appointed Paul Martin Pearson of Swarthmore, Pa., elocutionist, Red Cross speaker, Quaker, to be first Civil Governor of the Virgin Islands. Purchased from Denmark in 1917, the islands have hitherto been in charge of the Navy Department with Captain Waldo Evans, retired, as governor. Jurisdiction of the Virgin Islands now passes from the Navy to the Department of the Interior...
Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
...comes not only with New York's stamp of approval, but pervaded with the charm and genius of Mrs. Fiske. It has been said that no part wholly deserving of her talents could be written by any save Mrs. Fiske herself, but here in Miss Juliet Miller, elocutionist, is a character--unique, vigorous and unfaded, and one that gives splendid opportunity for the star's delicate and whimsical touch...
Refreshments will be served before the entertainment, for which the services of Mr. Putnam, a well-known elocutionist, have been secured. Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the English Department, will read; singing will be furnish by a quartet from the Glee club, and instrumental music by a trio from the Mandolin Club...