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Since he took over from Julian Coolidge '95 in September, 1940, Perkins has shown an appreciation for a good joke well played. The House member who risked his distinctly non-Hibernian neck to make the Lowell tower glow green on St. Patrick's Day night got a fine letter of recommendation to the Medical School, half of it devoted to that incident. When Perkins learned that the prankster was one of the first from his class to be admitted, he was not surprised. "I know they are always interested in a fellow with ideas," he says with a smile...
...from recollection in his small studio, and in jealously guarded secret. His custom is to put every picture away for six months to a year, then decide whether to show it or destroy it. This year, for the first time in Dublin memory, the annual exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy had no new Yeats to show...
Following Weeks to the microphones was the well-known Hibernian patriot, Henry Cabot Lodge, who told his rapt audience that Al Smith's entire family was voting for Dewey and Warren. Lodge then had several nice words for Senator Saltonstall, Governor Bradford and Mr. Weeks. On the way back to his seat, he also said that Joe Martin was a very fine fellow...
...casual as rallies may appear to the Hibernian scoffers along the route, plenty of groundwork must be done by Spear before the parade begins. At least six different authorities had to be cleared for last night's rally, for example...
With plot and title, this strenuous musical makes a strong bid to get Notre Dame's subway alumni on its side. It will interest few others. The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre...