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Annually invited to thus perform on the Wellesley stage, the Harvard actors this year have found themselves in part disguised and encased in the armor of "R.U.R.'s" mechanical men, as the drama deals with the creation of a race of robots who finally conquer their human makers and destroy the world...
...grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store officials waiting for the first demonstration. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal...
...18th Century Dutch School. He will be able to boast of his collections of Dürer, Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Velasquez, and the world's finest Breughels. He may point to his Raphael Madonna as one of the world's very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size of walnuts. He will be able to handle the only absolutely authenticated Cellini in the world- an exquisite ebony, gold, and enamel saltcellar...
...Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor of the period." Sister Mary Bertrand declared that the Catholic Church is opposed to bathing beauty contests; that the appearance of St. Joan along with Cleopatra and Mme de Pompadour was deeply resented...
...father, contemptuously asks him when he is going to take out his first papers, offers him a cigar. The bedtime story, a fairly dirty one about a Round Table boudoir, is pantomimed by a voluptuous young woman in medieval dress and an actor who cannot get out of his armor. About the only thing the midget has to do is ogle the girl and shout, when her knight enters with a fanfare: "TIME marches...