Word: loftus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loftus E. Bocker '32 has been appointed to the position of Note Editor. He is a former President of the Lampoon. Henry S. Reuss, graduated from Ceruell in '33 and formerly editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun has been appointed Legislation Editor...
...brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...
Author Novello, an assiduous London partygoer, has accurately noted many a curio of London theatrical parties. Present at this one are two celebrities: famed Mrs. Patrick Campbell as a famed "Mrs. MacDonald," and able Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus. A Party projects such a party completely, including onlookers' boredom and painted embarrassment for the participants...
...second act is frankly vaudeville. Giving in to the frantic cries of the guests, Miss Loftus does excellent parodies of Ethel Barrymore, Pauline Lord, Fannie Brice, Constance Collier and any vaudeville duo singing "It's Wonderful, It's Marvelous." Suddenly Mrs. Campbell turns from her formidably charming self into something strange and pretentious reciting Hecuba's speech from Euripides' The Trojan Women, then a fable about a mermaid. A girl sings some songs. The guests scream interminably for more...
Three-Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy; Richard Aldrich de Liagre, producers). Feyest of the Rimplegars of Brooklyn is Mother Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive...