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...properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent of its $10,000,000 advertised cost. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra burst into the "Star-Spangled Banner." The Mayor sprang to his feet. The audience sprang as promptly as possible considering its lap cluttered with hats, coats, canes...
...very proud of us you'll burst. X. Crescents...
...would blow at hair loosed in vernal gayety. But the girls, and boys, of Emory, sat awed as Dr. Clovis Chapel of Memphis continued to castigate: "The average girl of 17 would not greatly object to appearing nude if she had any excuse to do so. ... Modesty has already burst; it is dead. The average girl of today is like the moth fluttering around the candle light, and she sometimes gets her wings singed. But she is at least lifting the morals of the young men." Students crowded to thank Dr. Chapel for his sermon...
Blind Alleys (Thomas Meighan). The bride is carried off by gunmen. The bridegroom, loath to part, pursues. There are reels of his bursting into rooms from which she has just burst...
...Miss Millay (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain), blond and sprightly in crimson and gold Florentine brocade with a long train, burst out after the curtain calls: "No one sleeps tonight! It is our New Year's!" She had worked steadily, through illness, for two years...