Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant opening of the current season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer and manager of a symphonic orchestra...
...Hampshire, that cradle of millionaires, politicians and farmhands, John Shedd worked on his father's nubbly acres until he was 17, then got a job at $1.50 a week in a general store at Bellows Falls, Vt. It was the sort of store that has been made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell rang when...
...serve millions of meals a year, have our own commissary, buy our own supplies, and are thoroughly familiar with eating problems. We have been able to help colleges before with suggestions in regard to dining halls and would like to enter the lists against the Harvard problem. But we don't write essays...
...orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization. Old Bill with his familiar pipe and muffler, little Alf, his great worry, and the tyrant corporal, muddle through the war somehow. On the occasion of a camp entertainment, Old Bill and Little Alf are sewed into a stuffed horse to take part in a play entitled Black Beauty or A Horse's Sacrifice...
...personal opinion," Miss Barrymore concluded, "that the Mask and Wig gives the best of the college shows, yet that may be merely because I am more familiar with its doings. I dare say that the similar organizations at Harvard and Yale are quite as successful, though I'm inclined to believe that they are not as consistent as my favorite. Nevertheless they all give a prospective actor the needed experience which brings success much sooner after graduation than if he had not acted in college...