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...Pianist Bauer wakened him to supervise the Bach relay. Thus began an exciting evening of which the climax was the introduction of the so-called Gooschepeix Foolyphone,* an ominous engine-like instrument with coils, levers and pipes. Painstakingly oiled by celebrities in overalls, the contraption exploded after a few dismal howlings and was hung with an "Out of Order" sign. Serious peaks were reached by Baritone Emilio de Gogorza who sang a Gluck aria and by Mrs. Edward MacDowell, pianist-widow of the late great composer, who played the Andante from her husband's Keltic Sonata...
Harvard Lineplay Dismal...
Those are the simple facts of the story, but the clash proved that Dartmouth belongs among the elite and that Harvard has far from a good team. The game was won and lost in the forward lines. The Crimson rush line gave a dismal exhibition. On the defense great holes, through which the Dartmouth interference and ball carriers paraded, were blasted in it by the rugged Green charges. It was the line's failure to make openings which sealed the doom of the Harvard running attack and the Crimson passers were hurried by the India linemen sifting through the porous...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...
Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...