Word: hostings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fannie it is who first made the midget her slave. ". . . the silence was broken by a clear voice, like that of a cautious mocking-bird out of a wood . . ." Then there is Mr. Anon., who gives his life for the midget. Mr. Crimble, Mrs. Monnerie, Polly, and a host of others, not to mention Sir Walter Pollacke who was such a wise friend to Miss M. and who as her executor published these Memoirs...
...Unfortunately the performance was a long time reaching this level, and some of the earlier scenes were--sad to say--badly over-played. In contrast to the former productions, the bit where the two travelers drain the pot of ale dry in spite of the efforts of their supposed host to get a swallow himself, was rendered purely for its farce values, and the very rich comedy in it wholly neglected. Above all, the incident where "Diggory" delivers a letter stuck in a broom by way of a salver is palpably out of place. Also the numerous soliloquies, despite their...
...will begin at 7.30 o'clock. Captain Kane, Captain-elect Buell and Coach Fisher are expected to speak. Tomorrow will be the first time since 1891 that a University football team has been banqueted by the Harvard Club of New York. Mr. Thomas W. Slocum '90 will act as host to the team before the banquet...
...other noteworthy feature of the program is Miss Juliet with her repertory of impersonations. Harry Lauder, Ed Wynne, Ethel Barrymore, Lenora Ulrich, and a host of others, received the applause they well merited. Nor should one overlook Miss Juliet's clever little song "Soup"--one of her best performances. Indeed, with such talent on the program as the above mentioned groups, one cannot help feeling that the management has, with some of the acts, resorted to needless "padding" to the detriment of the show as a whole...
...more recent years, this unusually fine literary tradition has been carried on and expanded by such men as the late Walter Hines Page, Professor Irving Babbitt, Hammond Lamont, W. P. Garrison, and a host of younger men, among them many Harvard graduates, who are prominent among the rising generation of authors and critics. Moreover, the present personnel of the paper, as well as the owner and several higher officials, includes several Harvard men. E. F. Gay, formerly Dean of the Business School, is president, and Mr. C. C. Lane, one time director of the University Press, is publicity manager...