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...Argentine play, "The Witches' Mountain", the set will show a group of houses clustered at either side of the stage with the Andes in the background. The design is chiefly in red, yellow, and blue, and is done in the Argentine style...
...used in advertising the fall plays. The winning design was made by Richard Karl Webel Jr. '23 of Brooklyn, New York, who designed the poster for "The Dragon" last fall. He has chosen as the subject the head of a "gaucho", or Argentine cowboy, on a black background...
...games, and for the first time wore their distinctive uniforms of white hats, white flannel trousers, crimson sweaters and black bow ties, and marched to the field for the games. On their trip to Yale last November they inaugurated the innovation of forming a white "H" on a crimson background in march formation by the colors of the players' caps. This year they have formulated plans for marching in "H" formation, using a double rank as the cross-bar and columns of twos to form the legs...
...some of it will be erected in the Agissez Theatre this evening. What is probably the most difficult set to construct will be used in "The Crows Nest", the action of which takes place in the crows nest of an ocean liner. An invention to represent the curved sky background to the rigging of a ship has been perfected, and is being constructed in the Workshop on the lines of a patented model by Rollow Wayne 2G., who last year was stage manager of the Workshop, and this year has charge of the design, construction and painting of the scenery...
Newport, interiors, Florence, music, horseflesh, Paris are some of the things and places which make the background of Miss Barrett's latest novel, "Gibbeted Gods" (The Century Company). And they are things about which it is enjoyable to read and learn. The story concerns one Charlotte Baird and her fight against her environment not so much to improve the environment as to keep it from touching her. The fight is a great one, an epic struggle in fact, and could be read with considerable awe if Miss Barrett only could prevent her heroine so continually suffering such attacks...