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...completion of transactions whereby the University will receive the present Spee club house on 15 Holyoke Street, and will give the club a plot of ground with an 80-foot frontage on the west side of Holyoke Street at the corner of Mt. Auburn Street and a 90-foot frontage on the south side of Mt. Auburn Street at the corner of Holyoke Street, were made known yesterday. The terms of the exchange which is of significance in connection with the proposed new medical center, permit the members of the Spee Club to occupy their present house until...
Miss Chatterton as usual was more than an excuse for the plot. She labored under difficulties inevitable when Hollywood goes London. Perhaps someday a director will realize that even in America we have our heart-throbs in a polite and cultured way. Not often, but occasionally...
...machinations by which Rodelinda, the Lombard Queen, rid herself of imposters and became reunited with Bertaric, the rightful king, were by no means the most important aspect of the performance. Handel's plot is blatantly conventional, works its way out leisurely. The imported soloists, headed by Soprano Mabel Garrison, and the choristers from Smith and nearby Amherst wore conventional wigs and furbelows. It was Handel's clear, direct music and the finish with which it was given that won Rodelinda highest praise yet for a Smith premiere from the metropolitan critics. The orchestra, composed mostly of Smith girls...
...Lash", Richard "Barthelmess vehicle, and attempt is made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...blamed directly on the quality of presentation; an equal loss of prestige, however, is due to the choice of plays. "B. J. I.," the most recent production, although admirably handled, was admitted, on the whole, to be but a middling play. With the exception of one act, the plot was worthy of little commendation...