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Captain Paxton Hibben '04, recent secretary of the Russian commission of the Near East Relief, will speak tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock in the Grand Opera House, 1176 Washington street, on "Famine Ridden Russia...
...movies have friends and foes of all degrees, from the optimist who says they are an added force of enlightenment, to the lugubrious individual who traces to them all the evils of a crime-ridden world. To suppose that a man, simply because he has seen a sensational movie, will be impelled to go home and murder his grandparents for their inheritance, elope with his neighbor's wife, and wreck two trains and a house in the process, is patently ridiculous. Yet there is a grain of truth in the allegation which cannot be denied--many movies of today...
Beginning with the second act, then, the play becomes distinctly amusing. The steps by which mother-ridden Eve Orrin, under the guidance of Dr. Brent Janson, gradually gains her independence--while at the same time the Doctor loses his--are skilfully and logically depicted. There is, further, a fair sprinkling of witty lines, and some good character touches. The prevalent American tendency to farce wherever possible was perhaps unduly manifest, however, and prevented Miss Roach as "Mamma" and Mr. Bosworth as "Henry Marchant"--Eve's flance by "arrangement" from putting much individuality into into their respective parts. The role...
...thought, the ebullition of feeling that accompany and follow a great war. Men's minds are like the sea after a storm, where, although the wind has gone down, the billows still roll and break, irresistible in their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
Last evening's exhibition of up-to-the-minute efficiency on the part of Cambridge's heroic hook-and-ladder huskies was a most welcome diversion to such bored and exam-ridden denizens of the University who happened to be within hallooing distance of the Lampoon Building at the time...