Word: brian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When theatregoers heard that Donald Brian had left his former co-partners, Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorne, there was general dissatisfaction. It was felt that "united we stand, divided we fall" would be quite applicable to this move. To witness "Her Regiment," now playing at the Shubert Theatre, is proof that such a view is correct, for even Victor Herbert's music is not enough to warrant Mr. Brian's appearance as a sole star. It is true that Mr. Brian has been surrounded with a cast of mediocrity, which might excuse leniency in judgment. He dances as well...
Plot the play is without. The musical numbers are not that kind which one has difficulty in driving out of his head. Few of them make any impression at all. One exception to this is a song entitled "Oh My!" which Mr. Brian, aided by a male chorus which can actually sing, succeeds in getting across. There are no great beauties in staging, no splendid costuming. The humor, decidedly reminiscent, takes one back to good old antediluvian days and many of the lines which are presented to Mr. Frank Youlan, who upholds the comic muse, might well have been left...
...Samuel S. Drury '01, 981 Charles P. Curtis '83, 943 Benjamin B. Thayer '85, 827 Henry O. Taylor '78, 692 Henry S. Thompson '99, 676 David A. Ellis '94, 654 George Rublee '90, 644 Robert P. Perkins '84, 619 Robert H. Stevenson, Jr., '97, 605 John L. O'Brian '96, 577 *Elected...
...number of votes polled in the posted ballot: Samuel Smith Drury '01, Charles Pelham Curtis '83, Benjamin Bowditch Thayer '85, Henry Osborn Taylor '78, Henry Smith Thompson '99, David Abram Ellis '94, George Rublee '90, Robert Patterson Perkins '84, Robert Hooper Stevenson, Jr. '97, and John Lord O'Brian...
...Henry Wilder Keyes '87, of North Haverhill, N. H.; George Rublee '90, of Cornish, N. H.; Philip Mercer Rhinelander '91, of Philadelphia; Arthur Woods '92, of New York, N. Y.; David Abram Ellis '94, of Boston; Jerome Davis Greene '96, of New York, N. Y.; John Lord O'Brian '96, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Robert Hooper Stevenson, Jr., '97, of Boston; Henry Smith Thompson '99, of Concord; Samuel Smith Drury '01, of Concord, N. H.; Barrett Wendell, Jr., '02, of Boston; Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, of New York...