Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actors are born and not made", said Ben Lyon, popular First National Film star, in an interview granted the CRIMSON last night. "An actor never gets far on either stage or screen, unless his abilities, for that field are innate. To be sure, an actor can be trained just as an athlete can, but no matter how well trained an actor may be, he is not likely to succeed unless he has some abilities to build...
...symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent of its $10,000,000 advertised cost. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra burst into the "Star-Spangled Banner." The Mayor sprang to his feet. The audience sprang as promptly as possible considering its lap cluttered with hats, coats, canes...
What of the future? Mr. Mumford is not one to forget that Whitman apostrophized a locomotive, that Emerson thought a swift transatlantic liner could be as beautiful as a star, that Thoreau enjoyed wind singing on telegraph wires. But machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression...
Trelawny of the Wells?All-star revival of Pinero's play on actors...
...because of the part he had taken in the development of many of the star athletes of the Helsingfoors Athletic Club, he was appointed coach of the Finnish Olympic Team which was to participate in the following year at Antwerp. Mikkola immediately began a systematic combing of the country for prospective athletes and developed a team which made an excellent showing in the 1920 games...