Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provocative beginning. Nowhere is a good story better appreciated than in isolated Hawaii; no topic is more popular in Hawaii than anything pertaining to the behavior of those still further removed colonists, the white U. S. citizens of the Philippines...
...first appeared on the stage as "a walking gentleman" in Sir Frank R. Benson's company in 1901 at Brighton, England. In recent years he has been chiefly associated with classic roles; presenting one of the most widely known Hamlets in the U. S., and the most popular present-day revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, generally considered his best role. He has his own Manhattan theatre in which he presents revivals and occasional new plays in a gradually widening repertory. Last year his play was Caponsacchi, based on Browning's The Ring and the Book. This season...
Stubbornly sticking to its original, quiet neighborhood, The Players is not an actors' club in the popular sense.* The few that love it go there; a very few live there. There are card rooms and pool tables; soft chairs for reading; writing desks. In the back is a small garden around which runs a veranda where the members dine in summer. The club is always quiet, although from the peculiar demands of its actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore...
...Popular actors' clubs in Manhattan are The Lambs and The Friars. Neither is exclusive, or exclusively of the theatre. The Shepherd of the Lambs is Tom Wise; the Abbot of the Friars, George M. Cohan...
...your relations with the police her?" asked Chadwick after a pause. When told of the so-called "riot" of last winter he laughed. "Oxford has been called the only place in England where the police are on good terms with the criminal class. A police helmet there is a popular and rather common student trophy. We choose our man knock his helmet off and promptly make away with it. Later we see that he is paid for his head piece...