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...know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality, he is one of the persons named above. But which one? Is there any way to find out without waiting for the last chapter? There is. The squealer...
...book, everything is neatly explained. Sutton is indeed the squealer and he will hang for his bad acts; his secretary is his accomplice. Captain Leslie is none other than the shrewd Detective Barrabal; he will marry Beryl. Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery...
...sorts of things, such as that perhaps Prexy knows more than we do about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please...
...competition closes July 1, 1928, and all manuscripts must be sent in by that time to be considered in the contest. All editorials must have been written by undergraduates and published during the academic year 1927-28. Monthlies, quarterlies, literary magazines, alumni publications, and comic magazines are excluded from the contest...
Eddie Buzzell, as a newspaper correspondent who is captured by "a thousand, no, more than that--ten hundred Riffs," furnishes the amusement. His prayer to Allah, beginning "you know me, Al," is a gem. This comic interpolation, combined with Sigmund Romber's music, suffices to make "The Desert Song" entertainment of the first rank...