Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday Phillips Brooks House will hold its annual Christmas reception, at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon. The program will consist of carol singing, led by Professor A. T. Davison '06, and a sleight-of-hand performance by Phillip Walker '25, as well as reading and music. Refreshments will be served...
Tonight at 7 o'clock the Business School Club will hold a smoker in the Living Room of the Union. Mr. Howard Thurston, the magician, who is at present giving performances at the Selwyn Theatre, will show many sleight-of-hand and magic tricks, while Professor J. G. Callen, head of the Industrial Management Department, will relate some anecdotes of his career. The Business School orchestra will play. Refreshments will be served. All members of the Business School are invited...
...make a short speech of welcome, being followed by M. H. Dill 1S.L.A., who will render several songs. A group of men from the University Glee Club will also sing. Miss Margaret J. Penick from the Emerson College of Oratory will read, while Mr. Richard Cartwright will perform several sleight of hand tricks...
...attraction is of course, Ted Lewis and "the best band in the land"; no comment is needed. Val and Ernie Stanton contribute an extraordinarily garbled dialogue with a harmonica-ukelele duet thrown in. Frank van Hoven keeps the house in a continual uproar by his conversational method of doing sleight-of-hand. With the aid of three small boys he stages a remarkable hubbub--the best laugh producer of the evening. Frank Wilcox is responsible for an interesting playlet; he is always in trouble because the women would fall in love with him at first sight. Two song and dance...
...night, beginning at 6 P. M. From then until 7.15 there will be informal singing with C. T. Leonard '23 at the plane. Then Professor George Herbert Palmer will read the story of the birth on Christ from the New Testament. After that Leonard will play a plane sole. Sleight-of-hand tricks will be performed by Mr. Phillip Walker of Brookline. The rest of the program includes the singing of Christmas carols, led by James E. Bagley Sp., the reading of various selections by Miss Jennie Dimick of the Emerson College of Oratory, and another plane sole...