Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college musicomedies-is annually hailed by the current undergraduates as -much better than last year's show.-This year's Triangle show is called The Tiger Smiles. Its excellence easily equals anything the club has done since it was founded 42 years ago. The plot is to portray and satirize Princeton in the 1890's and 1990's. More time and attention are devoted to the earlier years, a happy choice. Most impressive factor in the opening scenes is the costuming. There is a vast and authentic array of pegbottom trousers, long-beaked caps, bulldog shoes...
...Well, if you knows a Better 'Ole--go to it!" Thus spake Bairnsfather through his character, "Old Bill," in his famous picture "The Better 'Ole," which ran on two continents and called upon 12 famous actors to portray the leading part during the past decade...
Maryalice Cobb, a Radcliffe graduate, will portray "The Lady," whose quest of a cure for boredom provides the unusual and diverting plot. Marie Haas, Radcliffe '31, and Barbara Wertheim, Radcliffe '33, have been assigned the remaining feminine roles. Both have been active in Idler productions...
Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...subscription runs until December 1931, and if TIME continues to portray truth with its present small percentage of human errors it will continue to run while there is a five-spot...