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...Ralph Adams Cram is working on a design for a sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor boating is being hooted at, for lack of realism meets not with the approval of everyone. Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and trustee of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, last week flayed the idea in a letter to the Churchman: "If that [sporting] life...
...until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell but the doubtful happiness of "carrying on"--and "There's no discharge in the war," now suffers the vapid appreciation of stock audiences. And the Copley crosses the Styx...
That the Gun Club will take part in an intercollegiate Trap Shoot to be held about May 1 at the Rockaway Hunt Club, Ceaderhurst, Long Island, was recently announced. It is expected that teams from Yale, Williams. Dartmouth and several other colleges will also take part in the meet. Every year the Rockaway Hunt Club gives a series of shoots to which Harvard and other colleges are invited and last year C. P. Day '27, the captain of the Gun Club team made the highest score of the competition...
...appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas with no intermission, was shuffling restlessly. Then blue light played on one corner of the darkened stage, a trap door opened, Ernestine Schumann-Heink was back. She sang the short passage allotted to her with fine full tones, nobly, magnificently. There were many murmurs when she had finished: "A great voice, a great interpreter, a great old lady...
Hour examinations found the luckless Widow struggling hard to keep body and soul together. At Christmas time Uncle Bim blew into town. Carlos and his female accomplice, Carlotta, spent the whole month of January in laying a snare for the big hearted millionaire. At the beginning of February the trap was sprung so that the story took on a most exciting finale which culminated last Saturday when the lion-hearted Andy held Carlos and Carlotta at the point of his gun until the police arrived...