Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caesar and Cleopatra?The Theatre Guild will finally perform its promise of displaying this play which many consider the best of Bernard Shaw. Helen Hayes and (possibly) Roland Young will have the title parts...
...usage and necessity. He dispenses patronage, makes up tickets, handles the funds, gives the orders, but he holds no office. Consequently the election took the form of passing this resolution: "That Hon. George W. Olvany be and hereby is, elected to succeed Hon. Charles F. Murphy, deceased, and to perform all the duties formerly discharged...
...square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest of the cast perform in rather convulsive manner. Taylor Holmes particularly can be quite distinctly heard screaming throughout most...
...from Los Angeles to Manhattan went blind Sam Langford, onetime great Negro fighter. Boxing fans, led by one Hype Igoe, boxing authority for The New York World, had subscribed to bring Sam east for an eye operation which one Dr. James W. Smith promised to perform out of sheer admiration...
...dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve in the sky. But it is a wise precaution to have the safety belt well buckled when flying upside down, for plane and pilot may suddenly part company. To perform a series of loops, when the trick is once learned, is but a question of endurance and of a head that does not grow dizzy when earth and sky seem to revolve in a gigantic circle before one's eyes. Still, very few pilots could emulate the exploit of Madame...