Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking a long farewell to amateur piano playing, Pianist Shotwell shrewdly announced, that she might henceforth be heard in vaudeville...
...charge of the direction of "Success", is a former vice-president of the Dramatic Club, and a worker in the famous Harvard 47 Workshop of George Pierce Baker for ten years. At present he is giving a course in the theatre at the Garland School in Boston, and coaching amateur theatrical productions...
...them as playing too great an emphasis on winning. In fact the compilers of the list frankly confess that its purpose is to "send the players out on the field with fire in their eyes and a keen determination to win." They have obviously failed to catch the amateur spirit and have made the mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied...
Undaunted by pooling bankers, the big and now successful Bears made Monday, Oct. 28, a day of fresh disaster. Over the weekend many an investor had fully realized the necessity for an immediate exit from the market. Thus the session, opening with an accumulation of selling orders, both amateur and professional, was hopeless from the start. By noon more than 3,500,000 shares had been sold in what was obviously a panic-situation. Again bankers met, but issued no statement, hardly retarded the decline. Again Broker Whitney haunted Post No. 2, but at this time U. S. Steel broke...
...parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...