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Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...result of the recent shift the men are playing as follows...
...Another shift has been made in the line-ups of the two teams. F. D. Stranahan '25 has been raised to Team A, and J. H. G. Pell '26 has been dropped to Team B. This shift came as the result of the recent practices and scrimmages which are being held in the Common-wealth Armory three times a week...
...made yesterday, when the old Japanese elm tree which for nearly half a century has shaded the quadrangle behind Hollis, was moved across the Yard to a new location behind Widener Library. Work on the foundations of the two new dormitories which are to flank Holden Chapel made the shift necessary...
...narrative with divided interest between the bullfight hero and the bandit hero check the proceedings slightly. Bullfight hero's father has murdered bandit hero's wife. Bandit hero accordingly objects seriously to marriage between his daughter (Renee Adoree), and bullfight hero. The horns of the dilemma shift to the horns of the bull. Bull gores bullfight hero. Daughter weeps and bandit hero cannot bear that. Happiness...