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Jimmie convinces the Hathaways that Pearl, whom he introduces as Virginia Lee, a cultured, stage-struck socialite, will back their company if she is given a bit part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free...
Within a month the Council had bit into another big question: "the athletic situation." This investigation paid particular attention to the development of intramural competition and methods of financing the H.A.A. program. In its report it advocated a compulsory athletic fee for upperclassmen, a reorganization of intramural sports, and the building of a hockey rink. The result was that the authorities placed inter-House athletics on a more centralized basis...
...noted with interest the story of the death of John D. Rockefeller [TIME, May 31], especially the paragraph telling of his father. You might be interested in this bit of local Freeport history...
Perhaps it is all to the good if TIME'S edge is dulled a bit. For instance: my husband and a judge I know of formerly did not like your magazine because its style was too flippant (the judge's word) or "persnickety" (my husband's). Now they read it more frequently and with more relish, they say. But they like sugar on their grapefruit. I like salt. And I like the tang of the savory bons mots with which TIME seasons the news...
...political job. It shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...