Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although excursions to Boston will doubtless now limit themselves to the exigencies of examination schedules and reviewing seminars, those who are blessed with leisure time and an appetite for cerebral drama will not go amiss by seeing Miss Le Gallienne and her little group of serious thinkers who have brought their varied wates to town important in itself Miss Le Gallienne's company is also indicative of a movement in the American theatre the revival of the repertory idea...
Miss Ishbel MacDonald, 24, buxom, serious, speaking with an even more pronounced Scotch burr than her father, accompanied him. Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...
...couple of Bostonians were thwacking each other at the Yankee Stadium in New York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay, whose battling name is "Jack Sharkey," knocked down 202½-pound Bostonese-Irishman Edward James Maloney. There were 52 seconds in the fifth round, during which Maloney twice found himself prostrated on the canvas. The second time he did not rise unaided; so the referee ruled that Cukoschay...
...film opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...time, when we were much occupied in getting rid of the rats in some of the Yard dormitories, we received a telephone call from the Department of Preventive Medicine. In the course of the conversation, without expecting to be taken seriously, we asked the doctor if he could use any dead rats. To our surprise he gave the matter serious thought and finally announced, "No! We use the fleas only and the fleas leave when the body gets cold...