Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Glee Club gave the last concert of its Boston series Wednesday evening to an enthusiastic audience which crowded Symphony Hall. Fritz Kreisler, the assisting artist, played the Brahms G major Sonata and a group of short pieces with his familiar skill and taste. The Glee Club has been remarkably fortunate in its soloists this season in Boston. Like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, however, the Glee Club need not fear that anyone will make disparaging comparisons between its work and that of such admirable assisting artists as Kreisler, Hempel and Albert Spalding. This chorus, almost alone among amateur choruses...
This afternoon the Freshman nine will match its skill with the University in a practice match...
...Kara, eccentric juggler, is the first on the bill. In this sketch Kara gives a remarkable exhibition of skill and dexterity. An act of this kind, how-ever, usually falls flat unless some new and unusually difficult tricks are introduced. Kara has evidently recognized this fact and he does some things which seem almost impossible...
...acts of George Watts and Belle Hawley and that of Jim McWilliams are essentially the same in that, although the actors do not show a great deal of skill, they keep the audience in a continual roar of laughter with their jokes and humorous songs...
...Philip Hale, in reviewing for the Boston Herald, Ben Ami's performance in "Samson and Delilah" at the Wilbur, regrets that Ben-Ami did not have a better play. He complains of the theatricalness of many of the scenes and of the general lack of skill in the treatment of the theme. Most of his criticism is true enough; yet We felt at the time and do now that Ben-Ami would have had trouble to have found another vehicle so admirably suited to his talents in many respects as is this work Sven Lange...