Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tact, diplomacy and sense of humor are the requisites of a good stage manager," said Marion Puller, manager of Mrs. Fiske and the only known woman-stage manager. Her opinions were given to a CRIMSON reporter last night just following the buying moments that every evening brings her as she releases the lever that opens the curtains at the beginning of the performance...
...lines of drama, revealed the tribulations of a quasi servant of the U. S. public: "I am not an impatient man and I am not given to making impatient statements, but I have got to a point where it is hard for me to preserve the semblance of good humor when somebody makes a statement that Cities Service Co. is a one-man concern...
...film test to be conducted here by First National Pictures Corporation and the publishers of College Humor all Harvard men interested in moving picture acting as a career will have an opportunity to learn the extent of their capabilities in that respect. It is probable that the test will be conducted sometime next month and the exact date will not be announced until later...
First National Pictures and College Humor have united in this joint project by which they intend to make a careful survey of 30 of the larger colleges of the country and after which they intend to pick ten men who will then be given every opportunity by the First National Corporation to become screen stars. Sometime next month, to be announced later by the sponsors of the plan, a make up man, a camera man, and a competent judge of photographic personality and studio requirements will come to Cambridge. These men will choose ten applicants whom they will "shoot" immediately...
After quoting this stout Saxon catch, the Very Reverend William Ralph Dean Inge of St. Paul's goes on to say4 that England, although "less healthy than Scandinavia and Denmark . . . ranks with Holland as a very salubrious country." Prom such a mixture of ballads, statistics and dry humor he has concocted rather than written his thoughts upon: Empire, Industrialism, Democracy, and the Soul of England, each of which receives a thoroughgoing chapter...