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...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
Appleton Chapel, now covered with iv, of soft autumn red, has for one of its chief uses recitals on the organ, which at this time of year seems to vibrate with the symphonic andante of deepening autumn. There this afternoon Mr. Woodworth will give the first of five recitals, playing several Bach compositions, including the choral prelude which was Bach's last week. It is hardly necessary to say that it is not as an chapel that Appleton exists for most Harvard men. Though offering non-sectarian services without compulsory attendance, and though well advertised to Freshmen in all their...
...tones soft but manly...
...even in the hair ? and the hair is important in a LaFollette. Old Bob had a grey, upstanding mane that shook and tossed and needed sweeping back between periods of an oration. Young Bob's mane is thick and gets swept back between periods. But it is soft and curly. Young Phil's mane is thick and straight and it tosses higher and harder, for Young Phil is the greater orator. He did speechmaking on the 1924 trip while Young Bob did staffwork behind the scenes. He went in for debating at college, when Young Bob, who left college...
Before Leonor Fresnel Loree last spring was forced to abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems...