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...Henry Jewett Company, ensconced in their remodeled theatre, which in its present stage of hospitality is approached by a wooden bridge from Dartmouth Street to the Box Office, presented "Pygmalion" last evening to an enthusiastic audience. There was a slight smell of fresh paint about everything except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except...
...will be a hard boiled individual who will reach for a drink after reading "The Beautiful and Damned" at one sitting. The consumption of liquor in quarts per page is so tremendous that the reader sooner or later begins to sense the stale liquor smell and the motorman's glove taste of the morning after. Mr. Fitzgerald, to repeat, may have no such intention but he has succeeded in demonstrating pretty effectively that the pursuit of pleasure as the end of life may be at the beginning pretty delightful but is likely to prove less so as the highballs succeed...
...Leiter Cup game on Soldiers Field he will be doing something worth while and something that people will hear about on that day he will emerge from the lounge lizard class and court those gods whose presence is felt in the sunlight, the clean wind, and the smell of turf. Either this, or he must come forth on a halter of compulsion. Compulsory exercise may not be so beneficial as that in which students indulge because of their love of sport for itself or for the opportunities it gives of exercise in the open, but it is vastly better than...
Next week members of the Corps will smell their first powder, and hear their first rifle volleys, when one battalion begins target practice at Wakefield. The work of drill, which is monotonous to the point of becoming mechanical during the early weeks, has become intensely varied and interesting. The target practice which will be undertaken by succeeding battalions has in it something, however feeble, of the tumult and thrill...
...ways of the draft bill are indeed far-reaching. Who would have thought it had the power to stop the lamented rush to the big cities? However, our farmers must smell, not the conventional nigger in the woodpile, but slackers in the wheat-fields...