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...ability of the Harvard cheering sections was proved Saturday. Volume and "pep" were there. Why not use them to better advantage...
...adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received the laughs they merited. But when at the close of the second act the outraged wife turned on the "other woman" with a dagger, and is only diverted from her highly...
...their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship or industry, is only the average man plus a little additional efficiency, both mental and physical, a little more will-power and "pep". Boston Evening Transcript
...Modern and Beacon this week, the feature picture is "Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Travelling Salesman", a comedy done in the usual Arbuckle style, but lacking the customary amount of laugh-producing "pep." Perhaps the cause of this can be found in the fact that the picture, instead of being written for Mr. Arbuckle, was adapted from a stage play. In the case of a comedian whose humor is so peculiarly distinct in its character as is Mr. Arbuckle's, such a procedure has its difficulties, since the comedian must adapt himself to the play, rather than the play to himself...
...irrepressible Kitty Doner introduces her brother and sister in a very clever singing and dancing act at Keith's this week. Appearing first as a New York dandy, Kitty brings down the house with her "pep" and originality; her next entry is with her brother, giving a sketch, "The Bowerie Tough," played by her father and mother twenty years ago. They sing, "Over on 8't Avenoo" with the most ludicrous pantomime imaginable; then, disappearing for a moment, Kitty startles everyone by her clever kicking and singing as "The Devil of the Dive...