Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next act is a sketch by William Rock, who appeared in Boston recently in Rock, who appeared in Boston recently in Rock's Revue". Although the scenery of this play let is very protty and the acting good, it is not the best thing that Mr. Rock has done in a theatrical line...
...snob. Thackeray has made a special study of University snobs and speaks suavely of the whole order; those who "pride themselves in giving recherche little French dinners," the "dressy Snobs," the "sporting Snobs," the "philosophical Snobs, who are statesmen at the sporting-clubs," and many others. The rock-of-ages verdict, then, is that everyone is snobbish, and will be as long as such a thing as individualism exists. We are all of us tainted with the same sin:--where is he that can cast the first stone...
...this week's bill at Keith's. The usual acrobatics, jazz, a monologue, skits, and a song-and-dance act of the old-fashioned type are combined to make up a light but very entertaining performance. The headliner is Nat Nazzaro, Jr., whose jazz band fairly makes the house rock in rhythm. The dancing of Viola May in this act is decidedly worthy of the Coconut Grove in New York...
...period, and have been practicing daily in the Arena, including a number of scrimmages with the University yearlings. In Dan and Neil MacNeil, Tech has two brothers who have been doing a good deal of the team's scoring this season, while Captain Du Vernet at coverpoint is a rock on defense. In Wilbur and Grant the engineers have two good men who are ready to step in as forward line substitutes should they be needed...
...introduce the characters, and then follows a bewildering melange of scenes and episodes that make no pretense of concealing a plot and have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, but which serve as a sort of continuous vaudeville that keeps the spectators highly amused. Besides the Messrs. Rock and Van, a large share of the entertainment must be credited to the huge, amiable figure of James J. Corbett; also Marie Walsh, Irving Edwards, Helen Eby, and Jay M. Regan. Two most captivating sisters, Irene and Bernice Hart, scored a decided hit with their "harmonizing," although their song program might...