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Before an audience that even the ban by Miss Ada Comstock and the subsequent publicity could hardly rouse to enthusiasm, the H.D.C. put on their spring madhouse and a madhouse it was. Lacking any tangible central theme and leaving the people at the end of the first half of the play with the uncomfortable feeling that they didn't know what it was all about, the drama certainly demanded a bit of courage...
...When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal...
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and his secretary, Ada L. Burroughs, go on trial in District of Columbia Supreme Court tomorrow on charges of violating the cor- rupt practices act in connection with contributions to a fund to defeat Alfred E. Smith for the Presidency...
Professor Hocking will introduce William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College and national president of the institute, who will preside. Other speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T.; Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, and Henry W. L. Dana...
...external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother's right, dying Ada embraces Pearl, bites Jeeter's hand. Pearl escapes to the big city of Augusta. Sorrowfully, Jeeter returns to his front porch...