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...Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...once cared for Chris Bean before his death, and who now possesses several of his pictures, is superb. His part is a difficult one, for he is required to portray a character not like the rest of humankind, and yet not strange enough to be got over with a bit of heavy "character acting," Dr. Haggett, finding that Chris' pictures are immensely valuable just after he has given them away to a crook, is in a rather difficult position; when he finds further that his maid Abby has one more of the pictures, and sells it for twenty-five thousand...
...important qualifications for the Presidency was not completely wrong then. Presidential treatments of last June's compromise on veteran's cuts and of the abandonment of the tariff agreement bill, as well as the abdication of the vital tax issue on the recovery bill are all glossed over a bit, though not seriously...
...bit before "the flowers that bloom in the spring" comes the examination in Hygiene, of great menage to the Freshmen with have slept through the lecturer, in the course. Fortunately, their term have no substance, for the examination is the epitome of all that is useless; those wise lads who know their way about realize that no one is ever flunked when there is the slightest chance of passing him. Ten minutes hard preparation would probably assure one of an A or a B. It is, in short, the most complete and perfunctory fiasco in Harvard College...
...Clark, a comely San Francisco soprano, was an offstage priestess in Aïda. Irra Petina, a Russian emigre who trained at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, was one of eight noisy amazons in Die Walküre. Basso Virgilio Lazzari, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera, did his bit well...