Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ande Charlot, producer of Charlot's Revue, now playing in Boston, has consented to give a short talk on the producing of musical comedies. Mr. Charlot had attained great success in London by his spectacular revues, but, realizing that the heart of this type of show was some small detail of the whole piece, such as a single song hit or clever monologue, he sought to develop a new form of light entertainment which would be a combination of light opera and the now prevailing vaudeville type of revue. Peculiarly this has been the field of drama that the Dramatic...
...Oklahoma Senate, officially but not individually, declined to continue the embarrassment of Governor Henry Simpson Johnston when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
Professor Pope has been associated with the Dramatic Club in many of its former productions. He has designed and supervised the construction of several sets used by it in earlier years. Lately as a membere of the Advisory Committee, he has helped to choose the plays. His talk will be in the nature of a history of the work done by the Dramatic Club...
Before his talk Captain Bartlett gave his opinion as to the mysterious disappearance of Marvin one of Peary's Polar associates in the Polar regions. Setting out with only Eskimo companions, Marvin had sought to make his way over the arctic floes. For some reason he disappeared. The explanation given by one of the Eskimos that on crossing between the floating masses of ice, Marvin missed his footing and plunged into the water. Last year the Eskimo repudiated this entire explanation and declared that he was the murderer himself. Although great publicity was given to this episode, the latter story...
...photographic section of the expedition was most successful, and hundreds of photographs as well as many thousands of feet of motion pictures were obtained. These Captain Bartlett will use to illustrate his talk...