Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: prayer by Dean Willard L. Sperry; oration by Charlton MacVeagh '24, of Washington, D. C.; poem by Oliver LaFarge '24, of New York City; ode by Richard D. Gerould '24, of Cambridge; Chorister, R. P. Bullard '25, of Melrose Highlands...
...Sanders Theatre: Annual meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; oration by Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; poem by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus. Judge Robert Grant '73, of Boston, president of the Harvard Chapter, will preside, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham '86, will be chaplain...
...private in the U. S. Army in April, 1861, mustered out as Brigadier General in October, 1865, the Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take...
...hope that in a nearby day some great, prescient genius will arise and sing the songs of that great epoch, linking Gettysburg with Chicamauga and Nashville with Franklin in one grand epic poem...