Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazzed" to the highest notch and liberally sprinkled with "pep", William Rock's "Revue of 1920" started off "on high" at the Wilbur Theatre last Monday night and sped through two kaleidoscopic acts without once slackening its pace. This swiftly-moving vehicle depends principally upon the humorous efforts of Billy Van, an exceptionally good chorus, and the versatile Mr. Rock himself, to keep the audience so busy laughing or applauding that it has no time to notice minor defects or shop-worn conventionalities; and it succeeds admirably in this...
...William Rock Revue of 1920" will open at the Wilbur Theatre on January...
These are rock bottom truths of the American situation of which we are reminded again by the report of the department of agriculture. In this report we have a picture of the vast fecundity of our country, the depth of its resources of wealth. The crops have been enormous, their value being about nine billions of dollars...
...ambitions of his father. The horror of the family reaches a climax upon the discovery that Brother William had adopted the career of a prize-fighter, and had retired from the ring as lightweight champion of the world under the name of "Gunboat Williams." Into this atmosphere, thick with rock-bound English traditions and customs. William introduces his slangy, breezy, Americanized presence, and thus furnishes the material for three acts of comic dialogue and situations, which approaches a sort of unintentional horse-play toward...
...December to race the Oxford harriers. In preparation for this race the Cornell team has been running a seven and a half mile course, which includes hills, ditches, sand and all possible difficulties of grade and bad footing. The six-mile course at Yale, although laid over West Rock, should be easy for them. The Princeton team is a good one and is led by Rogers, Martin, Penfield and Swede, runners who should finish in one of the first ten or fifteen places. They defeated Yale two weeks ago with little difficulty, Rogers capturing first place. It is doubtful whether...