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...Violet Heming, Ernest Lawford contented themselves with perfecting the background of small parts. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's cordial comedy of life behind the scenes of a small English playhouse never was better played. All in all a rare week. Spooks is a mystery play. Borrowing a descriptive bit from Ring Lardner, one might say that the mystery was how it came to be produced. It is one more of those complicated compasses varying to every point in the circle except the point of actual guilt. A few minutes before you go home, the true offender is ferreted...
...semi-final match between Cole and Pierson was particularly close. Pierson was a bit off his game going out and a recovery on these second nine still left him 4 down and 6 to play. He tightened up on the thirteenth hole and after taking the next two holes came back into the running. Cole dropped a birdie on the short sixteenth hole, however, while he was still two up, and clinched the match...
This statement, far from being startling, is only an obvious repetition of common knowledge. Shaw, however, has added his name to the cause which is helped by every bit of publicity. The great fear which now besets the evolutionist is that the whole trial will be hushed up as quickly as possible and that Bryan and evolution may be denied the royal exposition of which both are still sadly in need--even at this late date...
There are two subjects of current humor which should henceforth be debarred from further mistreatment. These are, of course, any further correspondence of Mr. Irwin's prodigious Japanese Freshman, and the Whiskey Rebellion, which has already been afforded ample space in Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart's inimitable bit in the "Parody Outline of History," in which Mr. Stewart expounds the theory of this liqueured revolt in a very amusing imitation of the bedtime story style of Thornton Burgess. All of which is very interesting but has little to do with the Lampoon's recent offspring. The point in question...
...course, there are probably other things equally as worthy of criticism in this special Class Day number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...