Word: girl
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...trim our leg-o'-mutton sail and are off for the El Dorado of Roast Pig--which is none other than Old Man Pratt's farmhouse, over to Grennell's Green. Son Jake greets us at the door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like maple honey boiled on the sunside of a cloud with cocoanuts disolved...
...gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most. When well-off fellows reflect that the price of a theatre ticket will feed a little boy or girl in Vienna or Warsaw for a month, he can hardly doubt how to spend...
With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...
...Carrillo and Fay Marbe are stars from familiar musical comedies, who now have acts of their own. Carrillo is especially good in his Chinese imitations and stories and Fay Marbe as a Mexican dancing girl. The exhibition of Spanish dancing is pleasantly extended in another part of the program by the Cansinos, who execute dances of great beauty with grace and vigour. Their setting is very effective...
...First time in America"--reads the Dramatic Club's announcement of its presentation this evening of Lady Gregory's "The Dragon." The policy of introducing new plays has proved an unqualified success. Too often college dramatic societies are thought of as producers of hilarious "girl and music" shows, in which closely shaven youths in feminine habiliments trip lightly over the stage after the recognized manner of chorus girls. The University's reputation in this line is in no way impaired by the existence of organizations that recognize the serious side of the drama. If the 47 Workshop is the outlet...