Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
...sure could build some fine roads." "America's chewing gum bill in the past year amounted to over $9,000,000, exclusive of the cost of gasoline necessary to remove it from trousers." "A Dumb Dora from South Hoboken wants to know if a man who plays the piano by ear is an acrobat."-ED. "No Predicament...
...title, suggests also Act II in which agitate Andor Tamas (Philip Merivale) imagines that phases of his own marital relations are revealed in sundry characters of a popular-priced brothel. None other than Estelle Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should refine the generally crude staging; but it is doubtful whether the play, as written, can ever succeed in expressing with...
...Room last evening to cheer the Freshman team which plays the Yale Freshmen at New Haven on Saturday. The speakers were C. C. Buell '23, E. L. Casey '19, coach of the Freshman team M. A. Cheek Jr. '26 and Geore Owen '23, C. E. Henderson '26 at the piano, and A. H. O'Neil '28 as cheerleader led the cheering and singing.s...
Singers will entertain the 1930 men, and C. E. Henderson '28, of the Gold Coast Orchestra will play the piano for the general singing which will be a feature of the rally. It will be the duty of A. H. O'Nell '28, one of the University's cheer leaders, to lead the Freshmen in their cheering...