Word: mercerize
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Alfred Lunt, as the drunken youth, carries the burden of the leading part with extraordinary comprehension and performance. Beryl Mercer (lately Queen Victoria) adds another memorable portrait to her stage gallery as the charwoman. Lionel Watts, Leslie Howard, and Margalo Gillmore lend competence that edges upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps...
...Prince Consort, Albert. To play this part the Equity director rescued Ulrick Haupt from the obscurity of a German stock company in Chicago. Haupt expressed his gratitude by giving one of the most decisive and diverting performances of the season. Victoria is in the capable hands of Beryl Mercer, whose interpretation is a minor masterpiece...
...Princeton 8 Harvard 1 Williams 2 Harvard 9 Amherst 8 Harvard 12 Princeton 15 Harvard 5 Brown 0 Harvard 4 Brown 7 Harvard 7 Providence 5 Harvard 0 Holy Cross 1 Harvard 15 Dartmouth 17 Harvard 7 Tufts 13 152 150 Yale Record Yale 5 Oglethorpe 4 Yale 5 Mercer 3 Yale 0 Mercer 3 Yale 0 Georgia 9 Yale 2 Georgia 7 Yale 0 Alabama 4 Yale 5 Providence 4 Yale 4 Columbia 3 Yale 1 New Haven 3 Yale 7 New Haven 6 Yale 2 Fordham 1 Yale 3 Vermont 4 Yale 3 Dartmouth 7 Yale...
...Players scarcely need the apology of "Stock, you know." In a part that almost acts itself, Florence Roberts adds something of her own, and makes one wonder what more even Beryl Mercer could have done. She should be a charming "old lady shows her medals"; her affected aristocracy is far more real than that of the true Laidy in the last act. One can't help wanting to believe her beautiful lies. Ralph Remley, her son, literally takes the house by storm; if he would forget about shouting into the balcony, his acting would fill the part well. A noticeable...
...game being played against Auburn at Macon, Georgia, and resulting in a 4-1 victory for the visitors. Of the remaining four contests below the Mason and Dixon line, Yale won four dropping one to Georgia University 6-5. The vanquished were Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina Universities, and Mercer College...