Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night of Romance. Constance Talmadge does not perform very often. It is just and eminently fitting that when she does she selects a good sustaining menu of amusement. Such a menu is the present film. It is all light food, thin and made for laughter. Arriving in England is an American heiress to $10,000,000. Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights...
...course of the Carnival. N. W. Niles '09 and Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard, pair skating champions of the United States will give an exhibition of their skill between the periods of the hockey game, while several students at the University, including P. A. Escher '27, renowned Swiss skater, will perform a surprise number. Miss Mirabel Vinson, national junior singles champion, will also give an exhibition of fancy skating in a singles act. There will be several other numbers of great interest to the audience in addition to those already mentioned which will fill out a varied three hour program...
...cast took time enough off yesterday afternoon to go in a body to the Fenway Theatre where they watched themselves perform in the Pathe News. Bits of the show are also included in the International and Kinogram News Reels...
...test of this sort is undeniably interesting and always entertaining, but about all it proves in the testee is the extent of his education. Any person who has received a reasonably thorough drill in the fundamental qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...
...play, written by Howard Finney '26, begins with a chorus of scrub women who perform a typical dance to the tune of "Katy Ann", in a bookstore in Oakland, N. Y., where Peter, the hero, works in a book store. The part of Peter is taken by E. A. Sawin '25. During the first act Jake Worth, played by A. H. Stafford '26, appears as a travelling salesman who sings about his tonic "Hermicide...