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...well as several new ones. The book will contain about 360 pages devoted to complete undergraduate and graduate activities, club lists, dormitory lists, a directory of the University with home and college addresses of all members, athletic statistics, and a telephone directory. It will be attractively bound in soft red leather and will be sold at the same price as last year, two dollars and one half if subscribed for in advance...
First Flight?Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, authors of What Price Glory, have written their second play. It concerns Andrew Jackson as a youth in his early twenties. They have set their scene in a rough village on the road to Nashville in 1788. They have made their characters soft spoken, close shooting gentlemen and trappers. Unfortunately they have included too much of the soft speaking and only two close shooting climaxes. In other words the play is too long, dangerously wordy, and often dull...
...done its road tour first. There are still several companies playing in the smaller cities. The Broadway troupe is headed by Louise Groody and Charles Winninger, as pretty a dancer and as funny a fool as the town now boasts. Mr. Winninger is a married man with a soft heart and a fat head. He falls for the hard luck stories of wandering females and helps to finance their lonely lives. To this his wife, quite properly, objects. There is much excellent dancing and two conspicuous, if now a little elderly, song hits, "Tea for Two" and "I Want...
...coal we should be producing is being rep laced by substitutes, mostly bituminous coal from non-union mines. Must our industry always be the "goat" of soft troubles...
...with this play and that was its too minute observance of its parent novel. If you remember that delightful book it will come back as a gently genial tale of certain weary London ladies who happened to hire an Italian castle. The tale told of their blossoming under the soft suns of Italy. It was the type of thing that the drama, with its imperative demands for action, recaptures uneasily. All the recapturing possible on the stage has been effected, with a pleasant but not particularly engrossing result...