Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robin Hood theme has been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd...
There are also other bases for a football rivalry between Harvard and Michigan. To the undergraduate the prospect of a game in Ann Arbor in 1929 may not be particularly exciting. The chances are ten to one that he will not make the trip West to see the game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff...
Tonight at Brattle Hall the spirit of the old West will flare up and flame again in the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production, "The Chisholm Trail." Hard-riding, six-gun toting cowmen will vie with invading homesteaders for the fertile grazing plains of Nebraska in 1886. The scenes of the play give a typical picture of life as it actually was among the plainsmen of Buffalo Bill...
...father of the hero, Hank Morgan, who is portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, fills the other juvenile lead, and plays the part of a young school mistress who is wooed by Hank. The part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the old West is taken by Frances Small, Radcliffe...
...ideals of the West," Professor Boyd, New Lecture Hall...