Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Volatile Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, was advanced by stolid Senator Edwin Johnson, Colorado Democrat, as a "liberal candidate" who might make it unnecessary "for the President to run against his will...
Says Frick, the stolid one: "People think our skating is eccentric. It is not so. Any figure skater should be able to do a serious Spread Eagle asleep. It becomes comedy when you do odd things with your body while the Spread Eagle is going on. We use our brains, nerve-control and concentration." Says Frack, the fractious one: "What we like most outside of skating is to go to a vaudeville show so we can laugh once in a while...
...magician. The snave charlatan, David Niven, offers here excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security. In the end, wistfully switching her skirt over a fetching figure, she chooses Niven, who turns out to be the homey type after all. The other lover fades away, leaving his air of boredom with the audience. Outside the triangle, some consolation may be found with the nincompoop butler...
Hunt Hamill '40, undertakes the leading male role, of Ronnie, a happy-go-lucky member of cafe society. Playing opposite him is Miss Reta Hurley, a graduate of the Bishop Lee School, who will portray a New York glamor girl. Leonard Kent '43, as the stolid and dependable Henry, Guy Clements '40, and Miss Agnes Love, Radcliffe '34, fill the remaining important parts. Henry Urrows '38 directs the Dramatic Club's latest production...
Leonard Kent '43, who received his dramatic training at Haverford School, plays the part of the stolid and dependable Henry. Guy Clements '40, a veteran of many productions of the Club, will be Joe, a Harlem Negro. His previous acting at Harvard includes leading roles in "Cannibal Carnival," "Dog Beneath the Skin," and "Jonah and the Whale...