Word: keith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trials and tribulations of a movie comedian and the rise of the talkies in the motion picture industry were the topics which Harry Langdon, famous movie comedian, now appearing at the Keith Albee Theatre discussed with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Anybody who thinks the life of a movie actor an easy one is all wrong," said Harry. "It takes me about 14 weeks to make a picture and in that time I have to work hard all day. Then, because of tremendous overhead, which sometimes amounts to $10,000 a day, we have to do night sequences in which...
Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...
...seller: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. The buyer: Frederick Brown, realtor. The price: circa $6,000,000. The Hippodrome's fate: presumably to be demolished, a fraternal organization's Manhattan home to be built on the site...
Harvard University defeated Walkover Club, 5 to 0. G. T. Francis ocC, defeated F. Parmenter, 15-7, 15-11, 15-10. S. B. Myers '29 defeated W. Keith, 15-11, 15-12, 18-7; N. F. Glidden '31 defeated C. Peterson, 10-15, 16-11, 17-15, 16-14; F. M. Shelton '31 defeated L. Johnson, 15-8, 15-12, 15-5; Burton Richardson '29 won by default...
Will Fyffe, who is the six point capital letter lead this week at the Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly...