Word: robins
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
...production of "Robin Hood" now at the Majestic does not exactly scintillate, still it possesses enough of the solid virtues of the operetta full-voiced chorus, music that has not lost its beauty, a universally familiar and appealing story--to put it over. Forty years is a long time in the changing fashions of the stage: time has left de Koven's music untouched, but has been less kind to the book, and only by the most violent efforts can William Danforth as the Sheriff extract an adequate amount of humor from his part...
...full company, and so reach a volume befitting the atmosphere of the outlaw group. Scenery, costumes, the Morris Dance in the first act, the later settings in Sherwood Forest and in the courtyard at Nottingham, are all attractive and pleasantly recall the Merrie England of the ballad. Robin Hood The Cast Sudworth Frazier Sheriff of Nottingham William Danforth Sir Guy Gisborne John Cherry Little John Greek Evans Will Scarlet Charles Galagher Friar Tuck William White Allan-a-Dale Lorna Doone Jackson Lady Marian Fitzwalter Olga Steck Dame Burden Sara Camp Annabel Gladys Heyser
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...