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...Story. The early life of Helen of Troy may not have been private-or at any rate Professor Erskine chooses to summarize it in two sentences: "So they all intended well. But Paris saw Helen face to face." The story begins when the topless towers of Ilium were falling: Menelaus sword in hand storms into Helen's room to kill her, looks and exclaims: "Helen, it's time we went home...
Their daughter Hermione has been trying to save her mother's reputation by spreading the account that Paris took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
This afternoon at 2 o'clock the University football team will open its 1925 season against a college which has never before had a representation on a Harvard field. The Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, New York, has sent the eleven which wil provide the first test for the new Crimson regime...
Rensselaer Polytechnic will be well fortified in reserve material, 28 players making the trip from Troy. Of these 12 are backs, six are flank men, two are centers, and the remainder are guards and tackles...