Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge again had opportunity to appear in his favorite role of defender of the U. S. taxpayer. Premier Poincare of France, unveiling a monument in a minor Alpine spa, had referred briefly to the persistent belief of his Government that France's ability to pay her War debts is inevitably conditioned by Germany's payments of reparations to France. President Coolidge, at his first press conference of the week, made the Poincare speech the leading topic and reiterated his Administration's insistence that there can be no connection between what Germany owes France and what France...
...energy of men whose resources are already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates of a future day may ask financial recognition of their role as student executive. This recognition might not be large, but sufficient partially to atone for the sacrifices which the responsibility entails...
That is what may seem a terrible play, sight unseen, but each role has been given to a thorough player. The sets by Yellenti include one of a scene in No Man's Land which must give an authentic impression of that hell to one who has never been there. Upon the square shoulders of George Jessel has been placed the task of carrying off the play's heavier moments-a task to which he is more than equal...
...question with him even more than with Putnam as to whether he can regain the form which made him a star performer on his St. Mark's and Freshman elevens. Crawford is at present out with an injury, but he will doubtless see much service in the directing role before the season is over...
...plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied...