Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Calvert's wide experience in England has made him a well-known theatrical figure in two continents. He played the part of Undershaft when G. B. Shaw's "Major Barbara" was first produced in London: and he played the same part when Grace George revived the play last year...
...fact, all orders are transmitted over the Signal lines of information. It is also a duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They are called 'the main lines of communication' and over their lines day and night pass a continuous flood of traffic for the hospital bases, ordnance remount...
...this way: Mr. John Drew in a new and original play in three acts, "John Drew." Last night, however, he put his now familiar gutteral style of voice and playing into a veritable characterization of the militant old worldling with tight boots and "the most beautiful coats in London." At times it seemed little more than a rich succession of grunts, growls, "By Gads," "demnition sirs," but even out of these husky trifles a man of Mr. Drew's talented staginess can produce a characterization. Next to the star, Miss Alison Skipworth, as a fat and vulgar Lady Clavering...
Cables from London and Paris received this morning report a great demonstration in these cities when the news was received of the entrance of the United States into the war. Throughout France resolutions acclaiming the United States were passed, and the capital was decked with the Stars and Stripes
...small degree of of research. In the first, "Harvard Racing Shells," he traces the development of the shell from 1846, when the first Harvard crew rowed in the clumsy lap-streak barge "Oneida," to the efficient shells of today--those which lower records, on the Thames at New London. In "From Watch Hill to R. O. T. C.," the part that the University has played in former preparedness movements is out-lined. It comes as an interesting bit of history to the casual reader...