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Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
When a few jokes have been added, R. E. Sumney '25 will recite the bed time story. Then before the listeners in doze off, John Bird '24, graduate of Cambridge University, England, will offer some humor in the English style. Another number by the orchestra will conclude the evening's entertainment...
...Hill is done with all the sincerity of the original. On the whole, a beacon light of American history, first of a series, well worthy of the backing of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Neil Hamilton is a capital hero (Barthelmess style), Lionel Barrymore a dynamic villain, and bird-like Carol Dempster acts very well when she isn't conscious of appearing on the same bill with George Washington...
...islands in relation to the continental masses, past and present; 2) the continental sources of the fauna of the islands; 3) the variations that have grown up between the forms of life on the islands and similar species on the mainland; 4) the life history of their myriad bird inhabitants...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...