Word: morrissey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary in revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group of Russel Markert dancers and a burlesque...
...University Club 1. Goals--First period: Hodder (9.48). Second period: Giddens (11.06). Third period Putnam (16.08). Penalties--Garrison (tripping); Hodder (tripping); H. Bigelow (holding); Hilliard (cross check); Crosby (roughness); H. Bigelow (roughness); Perry (board check); Crosby (tripping); H. Bigelow (interference); Putnam (tripping); Hilliard (tripping); Clark (slashing). Referees--Smith and Morrissey. Time--Three 20 minute periods...
...horse-riding cinemactor, one Will Morrissey, comedian, gibed: "Your horse Tony has a great future in the talkies. The horse can at least snort. But what can you do?" Tom Mix struck the giber on the jaw, knocked him down...
Arctic Mummies (American Museum of Natural History). Under the leadership of Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, the famed polar ship Morrissey (Captain R. A. Bartlett in command) is now on its way among the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska, to collect sea otters and sea birds...
Discussing the findings of specimens of arctic fish and animals for the American Museum of Natural History on the Putnam expedition, Captain Robert A. Bartlett spoke last night at the Union on "The Cruise of the Morrissey...