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...little actor, and a very great genius in his way. Syd is a funny man, and after you have said that you have said everything. Admittedly he has no further ambition than to make his public laugh. He is a gag man, a female impersonator, and somewhat of a slap-stick clown. In no wise does he resemble brother Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

...lunch at the Yale Club the other day, some of us, after complimenting TIME, opened a copy to settle a dispute, when this editorial struck us like a slap in the face by a favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...those who do not care a fig for his philosophy, then, there is plenty of good "theatre", plenty even of perpetual slap-stick farce in the scene in the reception room of the Fortune Teller, in the scene at the dress rehearsal in the theatre, in the hilarious dinner table scene in the hilarious dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ONCE MORE IS SUCCESSFUL | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

...Madame Behave" Julian Eltinge is allowed to do all the cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEIGHAN'S LUCK TO ACT IN IRELAND | 11/25/1925 | See Source »

...Another slap was given to the perpetrators of the ill-timed questionnaire on the truth of statements made by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer, and the CRIMSON on the question of football versus academic prestige, by T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale eleven. Coach Jones, who received one of the few postcards that escaped suppression, refused to vote. He did not indicate his belief in McGeehan's declaration that Harvard was ready to swap two presidents and three department heads for a good backfield; and he did not show agreement with the CRIMSON's statement that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAD JONES JOINS IN REBUKE TO WOULD-BE STATISTICIANS | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

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