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Blue Howell, 185 pounds, one of the lightest men on the Nebraska team, was supposed to have been going to a duel with "Red" Cagle, the Army's unkind star. As it turned out, neither he nor Fay Russell, the 205 pound quarterback, who has a wife and ranch of his own, damaged the Army. Nor was Clair Sloan, who has not missed a kick for point after touchdown since the season began, able by himself to win, though he kicked a field goal in the second period and nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third...
Heavy Traffic. Many are the theatregoers who demand, for their lightest entertainment, an exposition, bright with epigrams, not of mirthful innocence but of adultery. Thus the theme of Arthur Richman's ill-illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private...
Josef Casimir Hofmann, famed pianist, director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, left for England on the Mauretania to accept unusual jury service. To be judged: a carillon of 6r bells (the lightest, 7 Ibs.; the heaviest, 11 tons), destined for the Florida bird sanctuary of Publicist Edward William...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
MUSICAL Loveliest, loudest, lightest: Manhattan Mary, Funny Face, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Show Boat...