Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of Mrs. Partridge Presents. A good play on one stage and a magnificent performance on another is a combination which few but her husband can match. He is Mr. Deems Taylor, who writes able music criticisms, entertaining music. (He composed the music of The Beggar on Horseback...
...demanded of all Freshmen. The first rule in the old document reads, "No Freshman shall go by his Senior without taking his hat off if it be on." Exceptions to this may be made, it goes on to explain, in the case of a Freshman who is riding on horseback or who has both his hands occupied. Furthermore, "No Freshman shall ask his Senior an impertinent question," doubtless lest the latter be shocked. And woe betide the unhappy Freshman who failed to observe the next rule, that "No Freshman shall laugh in his Senior's face...
...Theatregoers have offered all members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
Washington chuckled, the whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
...have a Business School at Harvard, of all places?" asked Roland Young, principal of "Beggar on Horseback". By all means educate your business men, I quite approve attempts to raise their standard of intelligence. Let Harvard educate them and a Business School finish them, elsewhere." Mr. Young, an Englishman with an extraordinary American theatrical record, is at present occupied, in the travesty "Beggar on Horseback", in lampooning contemporary commerical America...