Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done a great deal of work in staging Radcliffe productions. Charles Leatherbee, plays Baptista, A. S. Gerstein, '30, takes the part of Hortensio, Margaret Effinger plays Curtis, and Charles Hicks ocC. Biondello. All of these have been in "The Orange Comedy," Miss Effinger playing the part of the Queen. Miss Adele Wood who has played in "The Straw" given by the Radcliffe Idler Club and the freshman play, will act as Tranio. D. W. Moreland '28, is Vincentio and G. W. Harrington '30, the Pedant. Both have played before in Dramatic Club plays, the latter having participated in Brown...
...Barrie. Perhaps because most people think irresistibly of him as Peter Pan not-quite-grown-up, Sir James enjoys, even from Royalty, something like the indulgence accorded in every British heart to Peter. Therefore, last week, though 300 guests were present at the royal tea, Sir James approached the Queen-Empress and whispered a request in her ear, as even good little boys sometimes do with their grown-up hostess...
...Queen Mary did not seem embarrassed or say, "Shh!" Her face lighted, she nodded, and with a royal finger discreetly indicated to Sir James a door. He should go through, and turn thus and thus. Then he would find Nurse Knight and should tell her by the Queen-Empress' command to show him the Sleeping Princess...
...maid, to "hug" the queen...
...technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one, in a lavatory. Pleased with himself, Mr. Lardner then interviews Horace Greeley in a bathtub. Toward the end of the book a Laplander lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries a Swiss called Geezle. He reforms the theatre by undressing the audience. In the last chapter, not without justice, he dies fishing for hake, suggesting posthumously and provocatively that it was stomach hake...