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...Several days later my agent told me that Mr. Hammerstein wanted me to come to an audition. I refused, but the agent insisted. I went, all upset, so upset that I sang very badly at the audition. I did not care. I was so angry that I was glad, as I thought, to have failed to secure an engagement with Hammerstein. But when I was through, he praised me absurdly, and gave me a contract. In a few weeks I was sailing for New York. I was not so unhappy. More acquaintance with the man had taught me that, while...
From Shanghai, the National Christian Council of China protested against the playing of Mah-Jongg by church people in the U. S. "Chinese Christians consider Mah-Jongg wicked and are appalled and upset by the example of their American brethren...
...court 14 this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock Malcolm Bradlee of 'the Tennis and Racquet Club is scheduled to meet Channing Wakefield 3L, of the Lincoln's Inn Society. According to all predictions Wakefield should win this match, but Bradlee has been playing a brilliant game recently and an upset would not be out of the range of possibility...
...University mile team is also strong. It is the same combination which beat M. I. T. in the relay two weeks ago, but recent changes in the Technology team upset predictions on this basis. A Harvard victory, however, seems likely...
...DuBois '24 defeated F. S. Kellogg '06, 11-15, 15-10, 15-6, 16-14, yesterday afternoon in the preliminaries of the Massachusetts state squash tournament, thereby creating another upset in squash circles...