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...Moon, the other attraction, begins as a bit of lusty Russian sex drama, with what might be called some very frank border ditties and conversation. But it dwindles off into a good old American musical comedy. Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett are the musicians and the direction is truly comical...
...that two new sports were added to the Harvard roster this season there are several other interesting sidelights. For the first time in many years the varsity hockey sextet triumphed over all its Canadian rivals and for the first time in history did the hockey team go across the border and play a Canadian rival on its home ice. The varsity swimming aggregation helped dedicate the new swimming pool at West Point when it met the cadets there on February 23. The squash team not only was undefeated but won the national championships at Buffalo, while Beekman Pool...
...Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected him as the model for a proposed Ranger monument...
...stacks of Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.'s plant at Trail, British Columbia, pour billows of smoke heavy with sulphur fumes. The fumes drift across the nearby international border, enter the State of Washington, permeating the broad valley of the Columbia River, poisoning orchards, crops, cattle...
...banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies-roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built a vast concrete Flemish castle ("Maryhill") overlooking the Columbia River. But the death of King Leopold...