Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman is greatly surprised by the great crowds which witness our athletic contests, for in his country the "fan" is the exception. This is due to the Englishman's preferring to play the game himself rather than to watch...
...entirely practicable here. Some of us can be bound together by the tradition of indifference; the rest must have some more tangible bond of interest. Were it not for the appeal of athletics or of competitions for managerships, our school boys would fly off like feathers before an electric fan; Harvard would mean nothing to them, and the Subway would become for then, the only vehicle of self-expression. This fortunately, is but one of the many justifications for athletics; it is the only justification for college spirit...
...usual standard. It is seldom that the theatre-goer has the opportunity to enjoy so many first-class vaudeville acts in one evening. Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield entertained with several original lyrics, among which was, "when a Wife Gets Fat". Cecil Lean's caricature of a baseball fan was extremely good and should be made the leading part of the act. Sam Hearn, the fiddling politician, gave a little speech dealing more or less with politics, but at any rate keeping every one in a happy frame of mind with his witticisms. The speech was followed by some very...
...well worth the price of a second admission. For, with a cast of newly assembled actors and with a play unknown to Boston theatre-goers, the management of the St. James has done itself proud. Despite the fact that "The Teaser" is strangely reminiscent of "Lady Windemere's Fan" and has few new situations we liked it. The plot deals with the arrival in the Wyndham home of Teddy Wyndham's niece, Annie Barton--a girl brought up in a "lower starta", of life than Teddy and his friends. Of course, the girl is quite "impossible" with her "gentleman friend...
...Cream of Wheat are the other black-faced comediennes. If they can all flap pan-cakes, wash dishes, and cook cereal as well as they act, the girls of this number deserve laurel wreaths. The Drill this year is as perfectly executed as it has ever been. The Fan costumes are most attractive...