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...street. He goes his way and we follow plodding. Any attempt on our part to catch him or his humor, like a projected theft of Thor's thunder,-could hope for no higher fate than drowning in the gloomy dep hs of our own ink-horn. Besides to be funnier than Lampy one must be intensely serious and come out early and often,-in many extras,-and we cannot hope to compete with the "Telegram...
...Lampoon baseball team has been persuaded, with much difficulty, to meet the CRIMSON Clouters, and the game will take place on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. As the funny men are funnier than usual when attempting to play the Great American Game, an even larger crows than attended the CRIMSON'S earlier victories is expected. The dregs of defeat will be diluted for Lampy's crew by a somewhat sweeter liquid, and the CRIMSON'S Cup of joy will be more than overflowing...
...women's parts, those of the two Fantasts by Mr. Wetherell and Mr. Zinsser were perhaps even funnier than Shadwell intended. The rendering of those female characters that are serious or sentimental is a physical impossibility for adult males. The sooner the aid of Radcliffe is called in for heroines the better...
...reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting chance furnished in the burlesque, "The Goirl of the Golden Pest," by his not too emphatic satire of the matinee idol. It was a piece of mock heroics all the funnier for being in restraint. The palm for genuine acting, however, must go to the player of a subordinate part. H. E. Widener '07 as Abadiah Butterworth," the self-made man, was the thing itself. He stayed in his part, and he never failed to make his points carry. As the sheriff...
...catchy and tuneful. The score is unusually large for a college production,--twenty-three musical numbers in all. The librettists, R. E. Edwards '02 and P. L. Coonley '03, have departed from the example set last year in "The Viking," by making the plot less logical, but funnier; and they have introduced more than the usual number of specialties. Three of the best are the Filipino quartette dance, the butterfly dance and a Japanese sword dance by H. Ohashi...