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...this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies. In a current film, "Touchdown," the central figure is an ambitious young coach who cripples a player for life in order to win a game, and then, for the conventional happy ending in an unconventional form, loses...
...ball hit the cross-bar and Butterworth caught it, and was thrown back of the goal by Waters, thus making a safety. This did not count, as Referee Reviard had thought it best to blow his whistle just before Butterworth fell...
...best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride...
...into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow the place to smithereens...
...These men - these directors - dealt Austria a greater blow than they can ever answer for! For months the condition of their bank has influenced every decision of the Government, by reason of the necessity of advancing and guaranteeing huge sums to save the Kreditanstalt from bankruptcy...