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Married. Ex-Senator Richard F. Pettigrew, 75, to Mrs. Roberta Smith, 50., of Chicago, at New York. The marriage took place last February, but was not announced until recently " for personal reasons." Said Mrs. Pettigrew: "So long as people are talking so much, I guess we may as well tell...
...instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini is a man of very uncertain years. Sixty is a usual guess at the figures. Certainly the man is a prodigious veteran. He has been singing year in and year out here in America for a vast stretch. It is related that he sang the tenor role in the first American performance of La Boheme. Of course, you may mention the name...
...Guess you'd better make it roses." LOVIN...
That they do not relish continual defeat is not hard to guess; and from what the average supporter has seen of Harvard football teams he knows that on every squad there are men who understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some...
...description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various ways in which the playwright jammed the situations into plausibility...