Word: typee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...
...Hasty Pudding Club in producing their 1929 play, "Fireman Save My Child", left no stone unturned in their attempt to make the play as historically accurate as possible. The fire-engine which is being used in the performance is an exact reproduction of the type manned by the original "Cambridge Catamounts" and shows to good advantage the work which was done by the producers to get the exact replica...
...Association, it has been definitely determined that Harvard will no longer be officially represented at the annual intercollegiate conference held at Northfield, Mass. For approximately three decades representative delegations from the University have participated in the discussions that have been carried on by the intercollegiate organizations engaged in this type of work...