Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play all by himself, he has brightened many a theatrical season with shows in whose making he collaborated (June Moon, Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton Of The Movies). With Moss Hart the whimsically insane Kaufman touch has surpassed itself in producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with his relentless jester's bladder...
Elected to the Lampoon at a meeting last night were William Otis Faxon 2nd, '32, of Rochester, N. Y.: Bruce Wallace Hislop '31, of Troy. N. Y.: Peter Orville Horwitz '33, of Birmingham. Mich.: John Harold Kennard '32, of Newton Centre: John MacLane Murray '33, of Cambridge: Stephen Henry Stackpole '33, of Milton: William Craig Wallace '32, of Cameron. Tex: and David Norton Yerkes '33, of New Haven, Conn...
...loud and prolonged ringing of a burglar alarm in the Gold Coast district last night attracted the attention of scores of students who sought out the disturbance and found that it emanated from the Lampoon building. It was suggested that someone might be in quest of the famed Ibis, Lampy's traditional symbolism...
Besides Kingman the speakers tonight will be P.M. Sweezy '31, president of the CRIMSON, Paul Brooks '31, president of the Lampoon, W. M. Wing '31, president of the Advocate, H. L. Brooks '31, president of the Glee Club, and Russell Smith '31, president of the Instrumental Club...
Short addresses will be given by the presidents of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Brooks House, Lampoon, Advocate, and other men prominent in activities. J. M. Kingman '15, a director of settlement house work in Boston, will inform the first year men on the opportunities and possibilities of social service work...