Word: starring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...starts in a theatrical office properly stocked with fascinating stenographer-chorus-girls. Here we meet the personages in a plot that remains traceable throughout the play--a beautiful society maiden (she actually is beautiful) who wants to be a star; her sus- ceptible and perfectly-dressed papa; her amiably aimless admirer; a furtive and ominous villian; a mercenary manager; a dejected dinge; and various actors and would-be actors. The broken-down tragedian supplies an element unexpected in musical comedy, for Mr. Hodges succeeds in bringing out the full farcical effect and at the same time a suggestion...
...their promise Mr. Cummings' poems are the notable contributions to this number of the Advocate. In their achievement they are most uneven. The four lines describing the "white-fingered star" are entirely delightful. They are, perhaps, more to be treasured than anything else in this issue. Elsewhere Mr. Cummings' images have at times a gemlike quality. Witness...
...Brown gymnastic team won the meet in the Hemenway Gymnasium last night by 33 points to 21. Hincks, the Brown captain, was the individual star with a total of 17 points...
...Doty '16 was the individual star of the game and made many brilliant...
...considerable surprise in New York, Saturday evening, by holding them to a 7 to 5 score in an extra period contest. The game was one of the fastest and most interesting of the year. Yale, bending its efforts to covering Baker succeeded fairly well, though he was still the star of the game and was as usual instrumental in most of the scores...