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Nevertheless enough of their shots were accurate to give Captain Cumings in the Harvard net plenty of opportunity to display his skill. It was the Crimson leader's last intercollegiate appearance on the ice, and it was largely due to him that the Cambridge rigging did not become fouled under Yale's insistent attack, which reached its height in the scoreless second stanza...
...Seven Sinners" is not as important as Mr. Schildekraut's troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which...
...properly separate, there ought to appear no definite discrimination in portrayal of current news of a universally acceptable type. It is quite understood that a papar's policy may eliminate stories of a mirbid character or may introduce numerous feature articles without in the least affecting its impartial display of news. But the uniform suppression or exaggeration of news, along party lines, is a definite and subtle intrusion of editorial columns into the news pages...
Four of the rarest and most recent additions to the College Library's collection of Contadina have been placed on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend...
...triumphant. He has never to my knowledge attempted other characters, nor is it necessary that he should. This vehicle has sufficed often enough to redeem trashy plays and hopeless casts. It is far better that an actor should give himself entirely to the audience once, that to display portions of himself a number of times...