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...Rooney as "Pat" was well received, and though his performance savors a bit of vaudeville, he is the life of the comedy. Marion Bent as "Mamie O'Grady" is attractive and carries her part well. Elizabeth Hines as "Allene" sings very well, perhaps at no time better than in the "Trousseau Incomplete," and is blessed with a personality that is quite unusual. Richard Bold as "Arthur" sings a delightful tenor to her, and it is this pair who render "The Two Little Love Birds." Elizabeth Murray affords a very good and very broguish "Jennie O'Hars," handles her role very...
...vastly superior to the rest; most of those worth mentioning are written in conventional Lampoon style, tinged with attempted Stephen Leacockism, which, as often as not, succeeds in provoking spontaneous mirth. But such incidents as "Columbus Modernized." "The First Steamboat," and the advertisement opposite the first page, are a bit above the general average...
Kipling, who has contributed his bit to the literature of the southern seas, compels quotation again. Laying down the "White Shadows" one is reminded inevitably of McAndrew's hymn of the places where...
...middleweight class staged by far the fastest and closest fight of the evening. Both men were evenly matched, and at the end of the seven-minute period, the referee could make no decision. In a two-minute extra period, however, it was seen that Fuller had a bit the better of it and the match went to him. F. Rouillard '23 and C. A. C. Eastman '23, had little trouble in disposing of their opponents in the 158 and 175-pound matches, Rouillard putting his man, S. S. Saunders '22, down in just five minutes, and Eastman, captain of last...
...delightful little bit of Renaissance nudity."--("Batty...