Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brain Power, Movie Weekly. According to advertisement, his "God-driven pen" has made millions think. So he is going to the Michigan Industrial Exposition to help the workingman and his family. He will give daily lectures on health. With him will be a troup of famous strong men to perform feats in weight-lifting and in other strong man pastimes. Then he will select America's Diana-for her beauty, for her health-and the three young ladies who stand highest in his estimation will receive $1,000 in prizes. Possibly Mr. Macfadden will also give them complimentary copies...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-The luscious taffy of poetic romance, with Walter Hampden giving a matchless perform-ance of the marshmallow school...
...Exposition of Classical and Modern Chamber Music at 8.15 tonight in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. The Lenox String Quartet, consisting of Mr. Sandor Harmati, first violin; Mr. Wolfe Wolfinsohn, second viloin: Mr. Nicholas Moldavan, viola; and Mr. Emmeran Stoeber, violin-cello, will also perform at this concert...
George Bernard Shaw: "During a five-night performance in London of my Back to Methuselah, I became angry with my audience 'because they showed signs of exhaustion.' It was reported I showed 'decided pique,' called the public 'mental cripples,' the critics 'quite insane.' Said I: 'If I felt like it, I would write a play that would take a month to perform. Why shouldn't I? ... It is absurd to treat me as though I were a gutter snipe...
...play that would take a month to perform...