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Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...
...compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their physical appurtenances, with the feeling of a preconceived ability to dispose of these forms within their foreordained niches. The overwhelming ramifications of the puzzling ideas of Relation, Appearance, and Reality, which are suggested by inference, may here easily disturb...
...showings on the diamond this spring and is rated among the best of New England aggregations. Tuesday the New Hampshire players lost a close game to Dartmouth by a 6 to 5 score. The Green team, however, gathered all their runs in the first two frames and were kept harmless thereafter by the New Hampshire relief pitcher...
...Student Vagabond has recently been accused of indulging all too frequently in "most just positively gorgeous non sequitura" and while the accusation is perhaps, true, the Vagabond sees no reason why he should be deprived of this harmless and very pleasant pastime. In any case he is going to indulge himself today, so any reader who wishes to peruse something pertinent had better turn to the adjoining column...
...Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands...