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Fifty Harvard men, Stan Brown's Crimsonians, the head of the Yardling Dating Bureau and his assistants, the Bachelors' Club, and a box of roses turned out yesterday afternoon at the South Station to greet the New Haven Express, which bore Mademoiselle Paris of the Folies Bergeres and 60 beautiful girls...
...always been fascinated by this man. His letters and conversation charmed some of the greatest minds of Europe and America, and Vag, reading them, has been charmed too. Vag knows he was an awkward, unprepossessing giant, a bore on the speaking platform, a fantastic figure receiving an Ambassador in his slippers and dressing gown. Vag respects and shares his fear of concentrating too much power in the hands of one man, but applauds his stony determination that struck fear into the hearts of the Adamses, Girards, and Astors. Vag would like to have followed him around his house and farm...
...Actor Eden Loring and Actress Fanny Wreath; it takes just a week's neatly woven action and reminiscence to bring their lives to a romantic head. Novels about theatre people, good or bad, have one thing in common: they delight those who are fascinated by the theatre; they bore those who are not. The Dark Star conducts itself more adroitly and with less "glamor" flapdoodle than most, yet not well enough to transcend the general rule...
...yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale '78, who inherited his mother's sweet disposition and good nature. Father Taft, who became the only man in U. S. history to hold both the Presidency and the Supreme Court...
...though Robeson was still a superb figure of a man with a deep and thrilling voice, John Henry proved an elaborate bore. A rambling, rag-picaresque tale of a black giant toting 800-lb. bales of cotton, laying rails with his bare hands, groaning with woman trouble and at last crashing down while trying to perform a Black River Labor of Hercules, the play never achieved either dramatic excitement or heroic force...