Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers will deliver selections from recognized authors and orators, and they will probably perform admirably. Professors and their wives, Cambridge dowagers, contestants' room-mates, and a few other students will probably have an evening's entertainment. Four men will receive cash prizes under the terms of the endowment, but neither competitors nor audience will receive any lasting benefit from the effort involved in the contest. To memorize and intone perfectly in parrot-like elocution is no longer the acme of public speaking...
...Bateese, comedians of the National Broadcasting Company, who come to the Metropolitan direct from a tour of New England. Another prominent feature on the stage is the Hal Sands production. "A Parisian Underworld" with Mazzone and Keene, Leonard and White and Helen Windsor heading the company who perform acrobatic and dance feats...
...always make the most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think of themselves as heroes. John Miltern (Reed), Robert Keith (Lazear), Barton MacLane (Carroll) and some 40 other actors perform it with fervent sincerity. With Men in White, They Shall Not Die, Ah, Wilderness and Tobacco Road, Yellow Jack should be a leading candidate for this year's Pulitzer Prize when the committee meets this spring...
Coach Fesler will put his faith in a starting lineup in which there are no seniors. Jim Grady and Dick Ernst will take the offensive positions in the fore court while Gene Merry and Captain Joe Ferriter will be on the reserve list, awaiting the call to perform in their last game for the Crimson. Dick Boys will resume his place at the pivot position while Dick Fletcher and Dan Comfort will play in the rear court...
...means of checking the sudden crime wave which has overrun the state, Governor Ely has recommended that all the police forces be coordinated into a single body. This coordination, it is hoped, will result in a more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces...