Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minute to Play (Harold ["Red"] Grange). There is the usual collegiate hokum, with a big football game as the finishing liqueur. Alma Mater Parmalee needs seven points to win. Star halfback "Red" Wade sits on the sidelines because his father does not believe in rough sports and the coach thinks he ("Red") has been drinking. One minute to play -vindication-substitution-"Red" Wade has the pigskin under his arm. The Galloping Ghost is off-long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field-a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory. "Red", of course, is vindicated before the college...
...Sheppey's Island, a vast forest-covered camp on Big Tupper Lake. John V. Sheppey* of Toledo had offered his camp to the President this summer. There is a possibility that Mr. Coolidge will accept his offer in 1927, in case Irwin Kirkwood (publisher of the Kansas City Star) should dispose of White Pine Camp...
...patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh. Joe Laurie, former vaudeville star, quite appropriately graduates into the leading role. The play appeals especially to the humor and tear ducts of folk who are not irritated because the title fails to attain the proper subjunctive mood...
...great deal of sprightly nonsense, gorgeous absurdity and amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...
Both principals are touring the state on the stump. Governor Elaine is assisted by an all-star cast including "Young Bob" LaFollette, Novelist Zona Gale†, and Mrs. Elaine. In Milwaukee, where betting is as essential as beer, the odds are 5 to 4 in favor of Mr. Elaine...