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...most sensational of the year. The Crimson, with Eby leading the scoring, speedily gained the upper hand and had a 12 to 4 advantage at half time. The Maine schoolboys rallied in the second half, however, and outplayed and outfought Coach Chase's charges. Hobbs and Crane peppered the Harvard basket with long shots, all of which came dangerously close, and enough of which dropped through the net to bring a 19 to 19 deadlock as the whistle blew...
Ruth is the idle, startlingly pretty daughter, whose indolence makes her all the more charming. Raleigh Crane IV, heir to "the works" and back from Oxford is attracted by her, though only just freed from his last affair--that of Kiki of the Odeon. He pursues Ruth and is piqued by her lack of emotional reciprocation...
...course, there is a happy ending. The pair return, get married, and compel Raleigh Crane Sr. to satisfy the material desires of his in-laws. The excellence of the acting smacked of professionalism. In fact, it would be extremely difficult to pick out anyone who surpassed the rest. The whole cast combined to give the sort of performance seldom seen in amateur circles, but which 47 Workshop audiences have learned to expect...
Besides this article there is some free verse by Theodore Dreiser; an article on Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter...
...complete cast follows: Ruth Actopel Miss Elizabeth James Dolores Actopel Miss Mary Sands Mrs. Actopel--"Ma" Miss Doris Halman Mr. Actopel--"Pa" E. P. Goodnow '17 Horace Actopel A. F. Ward Gordon Actopel Harold Bates Raleigh Crane IV C. S. Howard '20 Ellie--"Pennsylvania Dutch maid" Miss Angela Morria Dr. Pfeffer D. W. Keyes '25 Rossiter W. L. Smyser Raleigh Crane III "The Boss" Thomas London