Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, mention must be made of the burlesque athletic dance again by the Foolish Four at which at least one prominent critic in the audience laughed himself weak. This and the settings and the four-ply talent in other places successfully draw the listener's attention from the fact that the revue as a whole is andeniably not of the best...
...Silvers will return to Cambridge to coach his third Pudding production, and in the afternoon will be held the general meeting for all members of the club who are planning to compete for positions on the cast. The directors of this year's production will have a wealth of talent to pick from this year, as the recent amalgamation of the Institute of 1770 and the Hasty Pudding Club has made Sophomores as well as Juniors eligible to take part in the play...
...perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique and a motor car; Mr. Calamy, 'by inclination a minor prophet, by fate an amorist, whose talent for meditation incessantly scuffled with his genius for seduction; Falx, Guild Socialist, who was amazed and deeply shocked at the characters, at the conversations of these people...
...GLENCAIRN-Further plays of O'Neill. These are the earlier sea stories, written when his talent first began to stir and stretch its salty vigor in the Theatre...
Some ladies in a play by William Congreve decided that they would elect to membership in their female club, for decorum's sake, one single man. They therefore enrolled two well known dandies. Witty were these ladies; they knew, indirectly, something of the relationship of talent to genius. It takes, for example, many good fiddlers to make a great one. The Flonzaleys play excellently well, yet if the alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural...