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...going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting banquets. Nobody serenaded him with bands. Nobody...
With two players in the penalty box Harvard's hockey forces weathered the fierce closing drive of the University Club sextet and captured a 2 to 1 victory over the former college stars in the Boston Garden last night. Brilliant as well as drab brands of play were exhibited as the Crimson skaters chalked up their second win over the Clubmen and their fifth of the season...
Both sides showed the effects of the gruelling second period in the last stanza and play was slow and dull. Two single-handed goals by Paul, Toronto's speedy defense star, were the only bright spots in a drab twenty minutes...
Typical also were the capacity crowds which last week, while a sinking stock-market thinned most theatre audiences, filled the Civic Repertory Theatre. Situated on drab 14th Street, it is theatrically "downtown" (28 blocks below Times Square), a dilapidated structure with a facade of fire escapes, balcony pillars obstructing the view, and an unusually oppressive heating plant. It offers few conveniences either to audience or actors except vast, barnlike spaces in which many sets of scenery may simultaneously be hung. Yet last week, and every week this season, it was jammed. It was Mrs. Hoover's first choice...
...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...