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...some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into memory. Reports, perhaps not wholly true, have explained the ineffectiveness of the Elis in their objective games on account of Sheff vs. "Ac." squabbles in the backfield. Coach Stevens this year has his "A" backfield, of Booth, Muhlfeld, Beane, and Dunn, made up solely of scientific school men, while the "B" backfield is made up entirely of students from the academic college--Parker, Taylor, McLennan, and Snead .... Once again, Michigan has scheduled no game for the Saturday preceding the encounter with Harvard in the Stadium .... "Time...
MIRTHFUL HAVEN-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
...Booth Tarkington has never been a socially weighty writer, but his early books had a kind of restless threat in them. His sympathies were evidently with the young man who rebels against the machinery of money. As Tarkington grew older his sympathy with rebels thinned, mellowed or changed into a kind of bantering, gentle satire that implied less of particular criticism than of general tolerance. But in his latest book the criticism is less implied, more explicit, than ever before; his satire less tolerant, less gentle...
...subordinate persons did not constantly (almost too often) call him Abe. At all times however, his acting proves that he has thought out the part and made every gesture and intonation consistent with his conception of it. Ian Keith, as the half-mad, half-drunk actor-assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is as macabre and satanic as a character by Edgar Allan Poe; General Grant (E. Alyn Warren) is good too. Disappointments are the too-pious Robert E. Lee and too-coy Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge...
...Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime U. S. assistant attorney general m charge of Prohibition, heard a report that she had been hired as counsel for Giant Fruit Industries, Inc., California grapegrowers. Mrs. Willebrandt said she had never heard of Giant Fruit Industries, Inc., grapegrowers. Catherine Booth, British Salvation Army Commissioner, took legal action to become Catherine Bramwell-Booth, to honor her late father, General William Bramwell Booth...