Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough and just...
...difficulty, as Mr. Shaw will undoubtedly soon realize, is with the Englishman's innate fear of giving offense. How can the would-be contributor bear to see one great dramatist memorialized in a National Theatre while the other goes unrewarded? Rename it the Shakespeare and Shaw National Memorial Theatre, and contributions will pour in by thousands...
...Goodman and his Stagers have made a good start. It can hardly be tailed brilliant, yet they are smartly away from the barrier and not far from the van. They produced a play by E. Temple Thurston about an Englishman who wanted to go back to the engaging path of his early adventuring in Africa. His wife persuaded him that Liverpool and love were better. An early scene in Africa and a barroom temptation episode round out the evening...
John Henry Jowett, Englishman who served for many years at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian? Church, Manhattan, was perhaps the most famous pulpit orator of his generation...
...type of man that Lionel Harvard was is evidenced by a letter received about four years ago at the office of the Committee on Admission, and since lost, telling why a certain English captain proposed to send his two sons to Harvard. The letter quoted another letter from the Englishman, which ran, in substance, as follows: "You may suppose it strange that I purpose to send my two sons to Harvard, as I have never been to American and I know little about the States...