Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...
Prestidigitator Lett will be Master of Ceremonies, applying his now-you-see-it, now-you-don't technique to a series of short snappy acts. Last month someone accused him of making a pack of cards disappear up his sleeve and to disprove it he made his sleeve disappear...
...least alike. Warren's taste for the unusual is also shown in the trap door which leads to a blank tunnel beneath the second floor, the secret stairway which is shown on the House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...
Today conferees sit solemnly in the real part of the wall where the master's bedroom was, and the false wall hangs perilously over their heads. Today an English A student will walk unknowingly over the trap door, or wonder at the filled in peop-holes...
First Sergt. Morris Isacowitz, who served as master of ceremonies and was described by Sergt. Seigle as "the best ` first sergeant in the army," introduce Lieut. Nelson T. Headley and member of the faculty, who were guests, include Dean Fox and Professors Pratt, Estor Langmuir, and R. H. Matthewson...