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...Action, Douglas Mc-Lean finds himself confronted with a lovely girl whom he would wed if she would let him. Her objection lies in the fact that he is one of those unfortunate mortals who are worthless except for two or three million dollars. Accordingly he sets out to make himself a man despite the money. The ensuing series of adventures are pleasantly entertaining...
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE. Here was a Mr. Facing-Against-Both-Ways. "He opposed all parties, all movements and pretty much all men." Washington, both Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Clay?in time he stood against them all. A withering eye, a "ghostly, blighting . . . long, lean forefinger," an acid tongue, an irritable nature?for 30 years in the House of Representatives, "he was a furious negative...
...stoop' is a large wooden 'lean to' built against the side of farm-house and supported by wooden beams", she continues. "But if it were removed the house would still be complete against wind and weather. The house of gray-white stone masonry, appears at the side of the stage to the left of the audience, showing a casement window and steps leading up to a "Dutch" door. The stoop swings around the corner of the house at the left and back of the stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light...
...action, which takes place 15 years ago, is concerned with the Dutch farming people of the Catskill mountains in New York. One set will be used for the entire four acts of the play, and will show the interior of a Catskill farmhouse "stoop", which is a large lean-to built against the side of a house...
Outside of this somewhat impersonal acquaintanceship, the undergraduates as a whole have had no chance to know the team. Tonight the opportunity comes. The College, the coaches, and the team will get together face to face and there will be very few students left to lean out of dormitory windows and wonder sleepily, "What's all the shoutin' for?" The University has complete confidence in its team and tonight is the first occasion to show...