Word: norma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Normal" schools received their name (Latin: norma = rule) from one Joseph Lakanal, who agitated for teacher-training (Ecoles Normales) in France, in 1794. M. Lakanal was later president of the University of Louisiana...
...action of the play takes place in Dead Head County Arizona, and centers around the love affair of Norma Rockwell, a wealthy easterner and Mary Ogden, a western beauty R. H. Bootn '27 and Howard Whitmore '29 take the leads respectively...
Tonight is Harvard Night at the Hollis Theatre. The presentation of the evening, under the direction of Sam K. Harris, will be "Cradle Snatchers", a play by Russell Medsraft and Norma Mitchell. Blanche Ring will interpret the stellar role, and other prominent actors will be on the state. Tickers are now on sale at the Crimson pharmacy...
Married. Russell G. Medcraft, 27, co-author with Norma Mitchell of The Cradle Snatchers; to Jean May (real name Jean Pfeiffer), one-time "leading lady" of The Poor Nut; at Port Chester, N. Y. Accompanied by showfolk, the couple left a Manhattan party at midnight, motored to Port Chester, were married by a coatless, collarless police judge...
...Kiki. Norma Talmadge has seized upon the extraordinary stage success so long the exclusive property of Lenore Ulric. Miss Talmadge makes that lovely rowdy even purer and more wholesome than she was on the stage, more so than she ever could have been in her native Paris. Little matters of plausibility, however, cannot be cited as adverse criticism of slapstick comedy, for such Kiki has become and as such it is eminently entertaining...