Word: lerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Violet harriers have a powerful combination. Lerner and Hickey are the best material, the former having placed sixth last fall, while Shapiro and Phillips are very good. Cornell's chief strength lies in Levering, who was twelfth in 1928, and has shown even better work this season. Cornell defeated the Yale runners, 19 to 54, while the Crimson won from the Blue...
...mile run--Won by Hagen (Columbia); Lovering (Cornell), second; Eisinger (Penn State), third; Lerner (N. Y. U.), fourth; J. L. Reid '29, fifth. Time...
...Monkey Talks. When the play was presented, Jacques Lerner amazed audiences by simulating the monkey who talks. In the film he looks even more beastlike. Yet the love sequence for that very reason seems more unlikely. As a man, he loves the heroine. As a chimpanzee, a disguise assumed to help a friend, he appears in circus sideshows. Under these circumstances it is no easy matter to woo a sensitive girl not wise in anthropology. Yet it is done successfully with melodramatic incident...
...circus life came, saw and only partly conquered. The monkey is a man who apes the ape and fools the public in the sawdust ring. So astonishingly authentic are his make-up and his gestures that the play is at once credible. For this all credit to Jacques Lerner, French actor imported for the role...
...play was worst at fault in the adaptation. So daintily and agreeably were most of the characters drawn that life seemed to desert them. Nevertheless excellent acting was in evidence, in addition to M. Lerner's, from Philip Merivale and Martha Bryan-Allen...