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...this week's bill at Keith's. The usual acrobatics, jazz, a monologue, skits, and a song-and-dance act of the old-fashioned type are combined to make up a light but very entertaining performance. The headliner is Nat Nazzaro, Jr., whose jazz band fairly makes the house rock in rhythm. The dancing of Viola May in this act is decidedly worthy of the Coconut Grove in New York...
...period, and have been practicing daily in the Arena, including a number of scrimmages with the University yearlings. In Dan and Neil MacNeil, Tech has two brothers who have been doing a good deal of the team's scoring this season, while Captain Du Vernet at coverpoint is a rock on defense. In Wilbur and Grant the engineers have two good men who are ready to step in as forward line substitutes should they be needed...
...Jazzed" to the highest notch and liberally sprinkled with "pep", William Rock's "Revue of 1920" started off "on high" at the Wilbur Theatre last Monday night and sped through two kaleidoscopic acts without once slackening its pace. This swiftly-moving vehicle depends principally upon the humorous efforts of Billy Van, an exceptionally good chorus, and the versatile Mr. Rock himself, to keep the audience so busy laughing or applauding that it has no time to notice minor defects or shop-worn conventionalities; and it succeeds admirably in this...
...introduce the characters, and then follows a bewildering melange of scenes and episodes that make no pretense of concealing a plot and have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, but which serve as a sort of continuous vaudeville that keeps the spectators highly amused. Besides the Messrs. Rock and Van, a large share of the entertainment must be credited to the huge, amiable figure of James J. Corbett; also Marie Walsh, Irving Edwards, Helen Eby, and Jay M. Regan. Two most captivating sisters, Irene and Bernice Hart, scored a decided hit with their "harmonizing," although their song program might...
...William Rock Revue of 1920" will open at the Wilbur Theatre on January...