Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chiefly the means of proving to us that Bess is "a girl worth gold." Under these circumstances, Mr. Kenyon as the rather graceless Goodlack and Mr. Eliot as Spencer did their parts with judgment and success; Mr. Eliot's lines were particularly well-delivered, usually with genuineness and skill...
...Bess and Roughman seemed easily the best-presented persons in the play. Mr. Haussermann's swaggering was indeed "immense"; and the difficult transitions from boasting to cringing and back again he managed with a fine skill of reality. He played to the point of delight a part which demands very much versatility. Mr. Spelman's Bess Bridges quite exhausts praise. I do not remember seeing another man fill a woman's part so sufficiently. At times Bess was genuinely and girlishly charming, to the point of complete illusion; yet never over-feminine. She was most interesting, perhaps, in her masculine...
...Deliberate in forming his opinions, he maintained them with great energy and skill, but always with a courtesy so natural and unaffected that deliberation in his company never degenerated into contention...
...tells of the virtues of association football, the skill and agility required on the part of the individual plays, the team enjoyment a player gets from a game and above all the tremendous possibility it offers for general participation. Any healthy man can play soccer. It makes no difference if he stand four feet six, or six feet four, whether he weighs 125 pounds or 225 pounds. There are no signals for him to buy, no blackboard talks from coaches, pope of the hundred and one phases of training that make American football a business father than a sport...
...intelligence," was noteworthy: and so were the footmen and the buttons, Messrs. Lord, Hodges, and Hackes. The Misses MacKaye and Clark played the ladies from Everywhere and from Breezeboro with convincing ease. Professor Winthrop, a part easily overacted, was presented by Mr. S. A. Eliot with most delicate skill. Take it all in all. it was a delightful evening and should place the Harvard Dramatic Club in the first rank among those organizations which are worthy to bear the name of the University, and with which it is a real distinction to be associated. ERNEST BERNBAUM...