Word: troubadour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...
...Palmer 4E.S. and P. L. Cheney 2S.A., whose comic dances in "All Fareedah" and "The Late Mr. Kidd" were said to be among the funniest scenes in those two shows. J. F. Lautner ocC., who had a leading part in the 1920 play, will appear this year as a troubadour...
...Czecho-Khorsaat, J. F. Brown '22Reginald Beacon, a Shining Light from Boston, C. A. Gage '22Gloria, a Swiss Flower Girl, Paul Mendoza '23Mr. Everett Piper, Millionaire Plumber from Kansas, C. C. Macomber '22Mrs. Piper, L. B. Ellis '22Agnes, their daughter, P. B. Ferguson '23A Rustic, C. C. Carpenter '24A Troubadour, J. F. Lautner ocC.Louis Pierre de Soupe-Hibbon, Albert Palmer 4E.S.An Orchestra Leader, H. E. Scott Jr. '22Admiral of the Swiss Navy, Newcomb Fuller '24A Patriarch, O. M. Oenslager...
...Endowment Fund of Vassar College will benefit this afternoon at 4 o'clock by a concert of lute-music and troubadour songs by Mr. Thomas Wilfred, on the lawn of historic "Elmwood," the former home of James Russell Lowell, Mr. Wilfred, who is a poet, actor, and musician, will entertain with songs gleaned from the highways and byways of Europe, of both mediaeval and modern time...