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...bit of news from out of the West is going to solve the problem of what to do with Memorial Hall. Old "Mem" need no longer be regarded as a deadweight on the shoulders of an otherwise progressive University...
...whole piece is a rare bit of tooling that the players seem to enjoy fully as much as the audience. Jessamine Newcombe's admirers came in large numbers to applaud her return to the company in the role of Mrs. Pampinelli. As Mrs. Ritter, the "born actress", May Ediss developed a laugh that was the leaven of the show. Francis Compton was her hyper-critical husband. Elspeth Dudgeon, as Nelly Fell, Philip Tonge, as Mr. Spindler, and Allen Mowbray, Katherine Standing. Victor Tandy, and Richard Whorf divide the honors in the amateur performance...
...step behind a shield of Presidential immunity from direct quotation. The gulf between his past and his present was staggering. He had made his career on the same plan as a young man, able but conservative, who goes into a bank, works hard, tries to be efficient, puts by, bit by bit, takes his annual raise and with reasonably good fortune rises eventually to an undistinguished executive post. Imagine such a man suddenly being thrust into high and rather frenzied finance. Such, largely, was Coolidge in politics...
...understand, particularly that used by the Marines. The liberality of the Manhattan theatre he found impressive for he, perhaps naturally, has no sympathy with censorship. Ah well, no more have I; but I must confess that when one goes to a first night these days, it is a bit dangerous to take the young daughter of mother's friends, if you understand what I mean...
...Walter Lippman and a host of others--he remembers that these men were all given to an internal species of question and wonderment as to what four years of undergraduate life could possibly have meant to them Thinking along similar lines, the Senior likewise begins to rebel a bit. After three and one-half years in studies which by no means represented his free choice, he begins to see that now if ever should he be given his chance to overstep the checks and restraints of curricular study, and to give his near-approaching seniority or maturity the benefit...