Word: upsilon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edgar Bergen is a 34-vear-old Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture...
...ultra-righteous and the infra-bad walked the boards of the Delta Upsilon chapter house last night, and will display their magnified virtues and vices again for the edification of Friday and Saturday night audiences. "Thorns and Orange Blossoms", this year's selection, is one of the most unrestrained of the lot of unblushing melodramas that evoked tears, hisses, and loud huzzahs from the playgoers of the nineties. Being for this reason one of the worst plays ever written, it becomes ideal material for the histrionics of a group of debonair young...
...super-melodrama of the Gay Nineties period, is of the same school of "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" and "East Lynne", and business manager Peter Rabenold '37 guarantees that there will not be a dry eye in the house at the finish of the tragic third act, Delta Upsilon actors will take the parts of hero, villian, heroine, will do their utmost to see that virtue triumphs over evil...
Between 1896 and 1916, with the exception of two years, Delta Upsilon annually revived an Elizabethan play. Interrupted by the World War, the annual tradition was not resumed till 1931. Since that year, the chapter has presented either Elizabethan or nineteenth century revivals...
...Delta Upsilon members who will take part in this presentation include Charles E. Tuttle '37, Howard H. Bristol '38, Alfred R. Brenholtz '38, William P. Gresham, Jr. '37, William Welch '38, M. Hollingsworth Cornell '37, T. Walter Hardy, Jr. '37, Willard H. Griffin '37, Richard F. Rabenold '39, Henry Lioyd...