Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actors are born and not made", said Ben Lyon, popular First National Film star, in an interview granted the CRIMSON last night. "An actor never gets far on either stage or screen, unless his abilities, for that field are innate. To be sure, an actor can be trained just as an athlete can, but no matter how well trained an actor may be, he is not likely to succeed unless he has some abilities to build...
...know there's something about being blind that makes people want to ask you questions," he went on to say. "I'm sure that many people who see me every day believe, and always will believe, that I can see. In fact some of them ask me. The most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money...
...bang out a popular story on his typewriter, or let him scribble away in some high artificial style to delight the elect, he cannot hope to do both well at one and the same time. I shall leave the envious reader to determine whether any writers of the March issue have thus erred in their art. I fear that some have embellished a typewritten sheet with the flourishes of an illuminated manuscript...
Fourteenth Street Theatre?Eva Le Gallienne presents tried plays at popular prices...
...student council would be ideal which was small enough to be a working unit, yet large enough and so selected as not to include merely the most popular undergraduates but a good proportion of the most capable--the two are not always combined. Such a body is, of course, as impossible as Plato's Republic ruled by philosopher kings. And if it should exist by some miracle, there would still have to be discovered a really vital use for it. But the human student craves a voice in his micropolity, and the Williams experiment, after all, gives him as effective...