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Reviving its former custom of giving an annual play, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present on Friday at 8.30 o'clock "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" at the Chapter House, 346 Harvard Street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELTA UPSILON TO GIVE PLAY FRIDAY EVENING | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

...face and leaves the house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When the smoke clears away you see the great singer raucously peddling fruit, the dumb acrobat swinging iron girders, and the mother putting on a circus act with her acrobatic twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pictures, No Puzzle | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo are married, but Harpo, the pantominist, who says nothing on the stage and would pass for a dumb man, proved himself to be a 100 per cent talkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Brothers Do Not Doff Humor With Make-up, Crimson Interviewer Learns--Witticisms Usually Extemporaneous | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...bill proposing that Congress issue currency for road improvements under direction of the Secretary of War, arrived in Manhattan, said he was going to Washington to petition Congress once more. "It's the same old bill," said he, "and the American people are still as dumb as beetles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gross Satire | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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