Word: savoyism
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Margherita of Savoy, mother of the present King Victor Emmanuel III, Queen Mother of Italy, and darling of the Italian people, sold the Villa Aldobrandini, her historic residence in Rome to the Crown Prince Humbert, namesake of her assassinated husband...
Died. Bert Savoy, of the vaudeville team of Savoy and Brennan, struck by lightning on the sands at Long Beach, L. I. Savoy, female impersonator, introduced the expressions: "You don't know the half of it, dearie," "You must come over," "You should have been with us," and in his babbling, flirtatious conversations with Brennan, referred frequently to a friend known as "Margie...
...marvelous acrobatics, or the Aristpphanic clownings of those amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...
...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...
...Princeton Musical Clubs will present a varied program, including Princeton football songs, while a special feature will be a few selections by an orchestra of Princeton students who played at the Hotel Savoy, London, this summer...