Word: nut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis--"The Poor Nut," at 8.20 o'clock...
...luncheon to be given Tuesday noon, January 16, at which Elliott Nugent is to be the guest of honor. At the luncheon Mr. Nugent will speak a few words to those present but he has not yet announced his subject. As writer and leading actor of the "Poor Nut", now playing to full houses at the Hollis Street Theatre, and as the author of numerous works bearing on the stage. Mr. Nugent is a recognized authority, Mrs. Nugent, who is playing with her husband in the "Poor Nut" was obliged to refuse the invitation of the Theatre Geers Club...
Hollis--"The Poor Nut", with Elliot Nugent, at 8.20: Cracking wise on the college nut with no moments of incongruity...
...genuine, clean humor of student life," he said, "is a natural source which will be drawn on more and more. In the 'Poor Nut' there is the additional satirization of the athletic 'ballyhoo', and the fraternity life more prevalent in the Middle-West than in the East...
...Ohio State, where he was active in college journalism as well as dramatics, had already appeared on the professional stage. The son of actor parents, he was, while still a child, making regular appearances as "the boy monologist". Together with his father, J. C. Nugent, he wrote "The Poor Nut", which is a play of his college and the characters are close imitations of the students and faculty there...