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Harry Delmar's Revels. The process of glorifying one Harry Delmar, vaudevillian, was duly inaugurated last week. Dully, too, in spots. Other spots included a jovial pony ballet; a vulgar song that grossly libels the Revolutionary hero Paul Revere; various deft dancers; Frank Fay, one of the few high-voiced comedians who can induce hysterics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS-Duncan Aikman-Henry Holt ($3). Ladies a la carte make up this racy repast served on a cloth flamboyantly patterned with genuine early day Westernism. Calamity Jane forms the pièce de resistance-"comfortable, jovial, uncomplaining, baudily at ease in her blowsy element," Calam' reels through 51 years of life with husky frontiersmen, bullwhackers, soldiers, miners, gathered from the far reaches of Virginia City, Deadwood Gulch, Cheyenne, the Black Hills-an untutored rebel against the codes, with the creed of "to hell with the consequences" to guide her in a life rumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whoopee! | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Hapgood's jovial plumpness is kept from developing into uncomfortable obesity by at least weekly workouts on the Charles in a single shell. When this turbulent river is frozen over, Dick, versatile athlete that he is, turns to fancy skating. He is a member of the Boston Skating Club and those who have seen him perform in the Boston Arena say that he cuts a mean figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Press Box Personalities and Tactics | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Michael Bonney, though, was not one of these janitors whose business is to hoist dumbwaiters and trundle garbage pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Content | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...like anything crimson," stated a rather short, jovial middle aged man with dark hair and a well-trimmed Van Dyke beard, "but your kind of Crimson isn't on the sex I prefer to see wearing it." In such a manner Will Durant, noted American philosopher, laughingly started conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last evening while in a taxi on the way to Symphony Hall to debate with Bertrand Russell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant and Russell Discuss Varied Aspects of Education | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

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