Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four acts and many scenes of the play were mostly of a comic order. The humor, if it was not always up to the standard of the Pat and Mike stories, was strangely boisterous and effective; nothing was appreciated more than hero Donovan's brazen nerve in Lawyer Waddy's office when he succeeded in striking a match on the bald pate of the frightened attorney. There were of course, really clever lines, all too many of which escaped the observation of the Collegians and Cavanagh in the boxes; subtility was not expected. As for plot, what more is necessary...
...Pat Rooney as "Pat" was well received, and though his performance savors a bit of vaudeville, he is the life of the comedy. Marion Bent as "Mamie O'Grady" is attractive and carries her part well. Elizabeth Hines as "Allene" sings very well, perhaps at no time better than in the "Trousseau Incomplete," and is blessed with a personality that is quite unusual. Richard Bold as "Arthur" sings a delightful tenor to her, and it is this pair who render "The Two Little Love Birds." Elizabeth Murray affords a very good and very broguish "Jennie O'Hars," handles her role...
Another new musical show scheduled for January 24 is "Love Birds," with Pat Rooney and Marion Bent, which will be accommodated at the Shubert Theatre...
Brooks House believes in hospitality. It has "Open House" at Thanksgiving and Christmas, attended this year by 100 and 85 men respectively, all unable to go home for the holidays. One of them said at Thanksgiving that the party was like a "pat on the back from his mother." It cooperates with a Faculty committee which maintains the University Teas, seven in number, where students may meet professors "off duty." It gives friendly advice and comfort to students who are sick or in trouble...
...talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation in this particular case. The book is, in other words, a fireside book like all good collections of essays. One listens to the author, smokes a meditative pipe over an especially fine paragraph, laughs at a surprisingly pat application of a familliar experience, and is ready to say at the end in Dr. Johnson's words, "Sir, we had good talk." Dr. Crofters may have held the floor all evening as Johnson did, but in this instance nobody has been tossed and gored...