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...plot of the play is: "The beautiful young wife of an old, countrified Prince receives a copy of a rather gallant book of love with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much...
...name of this year's Hasty Pudding show has not yet been divulged, and the details of the plot are still a mystery, but definite reports, however, have emanated from the Club headquarters to the effect that the authors, Joe de Ganahi '25 and W. A. White Jr. '24, are busy with revision of their manuscript. It has also been announced that the tryouts for positions in the cast are well under...
...show, which de Ganahl and White will rewrite, concerns the plot of a play within a play and involves an extremely original situation. There is considerable mystery as to the nature of the plot, for it is said to be something new in musical comedy. Mr. George M. Cohan, now acting in one of his own plays in Boston, is assisting the authors with their book...
...plot is negligible. It is concerned with wild cat oil stock in which Pa Potter is flattered into sinking all his meagre savings. His daughter meanwhile becomes engaged to an ex-life-guard of pleasing personality but no prospects. Toward extinguishing this match and regaining his money are Pa Potter's efforts directed...
...plot against America has been detected. Henry Cashman, member of the Wisconsin University Board of Regents and the State Legislature, declared to the Regents last week that a grave peril is being courted by any State which sends Rhodes scholars to Oxford. "The object of Rhodes scholarships is to extend British rule and ultimately to recover the United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford...