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...Fatal Alibi. Two murder plays within a week (see above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John...
...RHODE ISLAND STATE Bassett, r.f. 2b., Kearns Nugent, 2b. c.f., Flaherty McGrath, 1b. l.f. or 1b., Potter Lupien, l.f. p. or 1b., Goff Wood, s.s. c., Lazarek Des Roches, 3b. s.s., Winsor Huxtable, c.f. l.f. or r.f., Smith Fincke, c. 3b., Dobosynski White or MacHale, p. r.f., Lettieri p., Ackroyd...
Coach Ralph Keany of the visitors, former Bates athletic luminary, will pitch either one of his aces, Ackroyd or Goff, against the Crimson, with the emphasis on the former. Goff has won five and lost only one game and when he does not pitch guards the initial sack. Ackroyd is the first four letter man that Rhode Island State has ever had and besides is a versatile ball player. He has pitched, caught, and also alternated with Goff at first base this year...
...Ackroyd of the Faculty...
...Tweedy. Orations-C. M. Brown, F. T. Brown, Crawford, Cushing, Danner, Dickey, Ely, Gage, Graves, McClung, Thurber, Ryder, Tucker. Dissertations-G. I. Adams, Foster, T. S. Hart, Kernochan, Leverett, Noyes, Moyle. First Disputes-S. Blair Childs, Dunnell, S. S. Hart, Hall, Holcomb, Hedges, Moriarity, Plummer, Swarwout, Talcott. Second Disputes-Ackroyd, Baldwin, Buck, Carter, Corson, Duyckeck, Ingham, La Field, Lillagore, G. Smith, Poole, Walcott, Walton, Henry White. Tilson McBean, First colloquies-T. G. Adams, Arnet, Barnett, Bradley, Bunce, Dater, Greer, Hall, Hefflon, Hodges, Hopkins, Jewett. Kenerson, Marsh, Parker, Robinson, Sacket, G. F. Smith, Thompson, Townsend, Wales, H. L. Williams, Wright. Second...