Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tired undergraduate would see a good play let him hie himself to Ye Wilbur Theatre where the rollicking musical comedy, "Very Good Eddie," is on view. There are songs and jokes and girls enough there to please the most blase, and the cast of principals could hardly be bettered. Not since Victor Herbert's "Red Mill" has a musical show of this order contained such tuneful melodies as Jerome Kern has written, and, wonder of wonder, "Very Good Eddie" has a really truly plot...
Ernest Truex, as the effiminate husband, is a remarkable example of what a good character actor can do. No one who saw him as the tough boy "detectuff" in "The Dummy" a few years ago would even recognize him in his present role. He has a rare gife of becoming not himself, but the particular person he is enacting for the present. He is thoroughly at home in his present part, having played it once before in "One Night," Philip Batholomae's farce, on which "Very Good Eddie" is founded...
There are others, of course; Florence Earic, Megue Paxton, Jean De Briac, and they are all, every one of them excellent. And so, with wonderful music and attractive chorus, and highly commendable principals, the show at Ye Wilbur is certainly very good, Eddie...
...quarterback, Yale has several fairly good men. A year ago, the quarterback position was enough to drive a coach to desperation. Wilson and Van Nostrand did the brunt of the work, but his season finds Jones in a rather optimistic mood over the chances of bringing out a real Yale quarter...
...Yale's first game will be played Saturday with the Carnegie Institute team and word has been passed around here that the Pennsylvanians have been working hard for this game. If they come here well drilled and with a good team the Blue may be surprised, especially as it is the opening game of the season and Yale is never as far advanced as her opponents in the early season matches...