Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leacock is right in his analysis of carses, at least in part. America is fast ceasing to be the land of "great open spaces" where untutored native talent could always extract a fair sized plum from natural wealth which only waited to be plucked. The United States is rapidly approaching the crowded condition of European countries where intensive competition in every scheme of activity is naturally reflected in intensive training for leadership...
...road reviewers declared the work of W. S. Wilson '27. J. H. Wright '25, and R. F. Burke '25 proved that the success of a Hasty Pudding show rests upon the quality of individual talent. "There is no doubt," insists the Smith College Weekly, "but that the honors go to Myrtle Grady, the fascinating little Irish girl...
...never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...Club took in boarders, invited the Institute of 1770 in as a paying guest, and with the proceeds of this happy alliance furnished up the Holyoke Street -club- house, painted the theatre, hung all the old posters in the wrong places, and found themselves with a lot of Sophomore talent. W. S. Wilson '27, is a Sophomore. He ought to make All-American before he is through, if he can hold the delightful gift he has of dressing and looking and acting like a shy, determined little red-haired cutie without the slightest trace of the female impersonator...
Last year the need was strongly felt or vocal talent in order to give a more balanced program. With the permission of President Lowell and Dr. Davison, a vocal unit was established as a part of the Instrumental Clubs and a new constitution was drawn up to encompass the three units under a single organization...