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...Ballyhoo. A maudlin play stutters about the love of Starlight Lil, circus-rider, for an irreproachable young man. She considers herself unworthy. To free the boy from his passion for her, she pretends to offer herself as the stake in a cowpunchers' card game. That makes the hero so angry, he rushes out into the night, divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover...
...whatever his integrity, could have denied her. Nor was it remarkable that Guinevere stayed skeptical, with reports of the lusty brat's [Galahad's] activities constantly reaching the court. She dismissed Lancelot, who thereupon went mad, and she never bade him return until her life was at stake before the perfectly accurate charges of jealous and mighty Sir Meliagrance. The interim was Elaine's one happy season. When Lancelot was found in the forest and brought, bound, into young Galahad's new bloodhound kennels, she nursed the grizzled giant back to sanity. Galahad, who grew...
...trophy has been offered by the athletic powers of the University, and the contestants have increased the prize at stake by agreeing to give the championship outfit a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston at the end of the season...
...strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
...last week. Ungallant they raced against 120 women, two expectant of motherhood, most clad in running skirts in one piece bathing suits. Raced also some 15,000 professional diamond prospectors. At the crack of a South African police rifle they strained legs, lungs, hearts, in a wild scramble to stake out claims in a newly opened sector of the Transvaal diamond district...