Word: taverner
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...wondering why the book should have been written at all. Still, as a sincere if at times some-what tedious portrayal of a partic-ular angle of hobohemia, it is recommended to those who still con-sider Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened−in whiskey−to the time when he tossed a coin−" Heads I marry her, tails I don't." Abundance of Irish...
...Right.?Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...
Donald Brian, as a tavern-keeper and a little something besides, conceives a publicity coup. He officially denies the presence of hidden treasure about the place. The result is that the tavern is crammed with doubloon-seekers in no time at all. The whole building and grounds surrounding it are torn limb from limb by industrious axes, hammers...
...Tiger Rose" is itself a typical melodrama, and Mr. Mack would have done better if he had revised his play in the places where the dialogue smacks too much of "The Tavern". In an intensely melodramatic moment in the last act, Bruce Norton ends his speech by uttering in a hoarse whisper "Damn him!", and the doctor hoarsely whispers back "My God!" Whereupon the audience bursts out laughing. Nevertheless melodrama is melodrama, and it would never do for the heroine to talk pidgin-English without a steady flow of "damn" and "hell". For the audience loves...
...third successive time, President Lowell making the presentation. The winning dormitory sang "Upidee" and "Up the Street" with N. L. Bean '25 as leader; Smith Halls, "Who Did?," and "Here's a Health to King Charles", with M. L. Brown '26 as leader; and Standish, "There is a Tavern in the Town" and "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" with Russell Deward '25 as leader. Standish won the cup in 1919, while Smith cautured it the two previous years...