Word: inns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the episodes which are reproduced with loving care and no more dramatic consequence than is to be found in the Papers themselves, are: the affair at the Inn, where the mad scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...very interesting exhibit was unearthed from the open shelves at Widener, its existence having previously been unknown. It is a copy of an edition of Machiavelli's unpublished works printed in London in 1760, presented by the publishers to Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, who gave it to the College Library a few days later. In it he inscribed "Felicity is freedom, and freedom is magnanimity. Thucyd," Thomas Hollis was called "of Lincoln's Inn" to distinguish from the two other Thomas Hollises, all of whom were members of a family that was one of the greatest of Harvard...
...attempt to establish a human relation has succeeded so well that some directors or tutors even think the men spend more time with their students than they need to spend. The tutor who enjoys taking his ease in his inn naturally finds the students ready to spend much time in general chat. It is not so easy, when trying to cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...
...what the billboards advertise--and for once correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding as it saw Sam Weller, boots in hand, in amorous discourse with Betsy, the chambermaid. And Sam and Betsy proved to be no less accurately recreated than the other characters who form the genial frame to the Pickwick Club...