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...Star Witness", one half the bill which is being shown at the University, is a film which owes its merit to the sincerity of the acting, rather than to any excellences of plot. It is the story of a family who became enmeshed in the toils of a gang because they have been the only witnesses to a murder committed in front of their home...
...While the girl is giving birth to their child, the boy is earning the hospital expenses by hiring himself out as a set-up in a prize-fight. The baby is a boy and an heir to the check given by the doctor. Of course it is a weak plot, but the production simply proves what entertaining results can be accomplished through capable directing and clever dialogue...
...meantime, Lovejoy stated, the precarious situation which the School is in is fully realized, and it is hoped that friends of the institution will make it possible to buy the plot of ground on which the building is located outright from the city. The list of 41 members of the School's board of governors includes many distinguished names which may have influence. The plan to acquire the land is also looked on favorably by University authorities, it is understood...
...site on which the octagonal Rogers Buildings a former Harvard Gymnasium, is located, formerly belonged to the University, but was exchanged for a plot near Langdell Hall...
...sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still talking and laughing, had come with the opening night. Mârouf, by French Composer Henri Benjamin Rabaud, was the opera. Opulently oriental, with an Aladdin-like plot out of the Arabian Nights, it was first performed in Paris in 1914, is pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), born 39 years ago in Los Angeles. Charming...