Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season of the astute Mr. Arthur Hopkins (director of destiny for Ethel Barrymore, John Barryrnore) opened with a drama by Molnar, author of Liliom, adapted by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Pauline Lord, whose performance of Anna Christie was one of the great things of the American theatre, was the star. Particularly auspicious were the omens since the play had attained brilliant Continental success. And so the curtain rose...
Although Exeter defeated the 1926 football team by a score of 20-6, Exeter's three star players, MacPhail, Prendergast, and Zarakov are no longer in the line up, and Zarakov is now playing for the Harvard team...
...Haven, October 19.--O'Hearn, Neal, and Captain Mallory, three parts of Yale's star, backfield last year, begin the game today against Bucknell College. Newell Neidlinger alone is lacking. In his place will be Murphy, who piloted the team so successfully last year. Bucknell College has made no last minute shifts in their line-up. Since the visitors are undefeated to date and equal Yale in weight, the Eli backers look for Bulldog victory but only by a slight margin...
Professor Shapley is noted for his research work. In addition to having perfected methods of measuring star distance photometrically, he is responsible for the expansion and contraction theory of the mass of the variable stars, which explains their changes in luminosity. He came to the College Observatory in 1921 from Mount Wilson, where he had worked since...
Edna Purviance is the star. She will be remembered as the compelling vision who accompanied Chaplin in his early comedy wanderings. Rather more maturely moulded than in those days, her first serious effort is steadily satisfactory...