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After Welsh Rarebit. Born in Cincinnati in 1865, the son of a wild West faro player, Robert Henri (belligerently pronounced Hen-rye) got his early training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, followed it with eleven years, on and off, of traveling in France, Italy and Spain. Back in Philadelphia in the '90s, Henri was ready for his first circle of converts, a group of Philadelphia newspaper illustrators who made Henri's studio their rendezvous. There, between amateur theatricals, impromptu concerts and Welsh-rarebit feasts, Henri preached a two-fisted approach to painting, drove home...
...grand that the Dining Halls Department has redesigned the circular trays--raising the partitions. Now there is no chance of mashed potatoes, succotash, and welch rarebit slopping out of their appointed compartment into an unappetizing mess. And the new trays solve the problem of sauces and gravies dripping over the sides onto the eater's trousers...
...tables, many old plints and books, and small gold-lettered glass signs--"Welsh Rarebit", "Golden Buck". "Eggs and Toast", "Grilled Sardines"--hold places of honor and prominence on the present Mory...
Tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall the Harvard Film Society will begin its presentation of a series of memorable motion pictures with the "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," produced in 1906 and directed by Edwin S. Porter, in which Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings...
First to run off this evening will be "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," one of the earliest examples of screen comedy. It was directed in 1906 by Edwin S. Porter...