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...University authorities are entirely in accord with the new project which will in no way effect the site of Memorial Hall. The cut-off itself will be about 50 or 60 feet wide and is expected to cost about...
Betty Lee. A moderately dull musical comedy forced into furious and agreeable activity by desperate dancing-that is Betty Lee. A song or two that will serve and Hal Skelly and Joe E. Brown (he has a wide mouth) trying hard to squeeze comedy out of commonplaces-these help occasionally. Most of the singing is discouraging and the costumes something less than smart. There is a plot about a youth who boasted he could run and then was matched against a champion. The huge trousers sers of Mr. Brown are easily the most important feature of the entertainment tainment...
Toward sundown, the stir hushed. All was ready and the imminence pressed to reveal itself. The doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
...divorce on the grounds of adultery, cruelty and conviction for an infamous crime punishable by imprisonment. (The inclusion of cruelty as a ground for divorce is an echo of Napoleon's troubles with Josephine.) The interpretation by the French courts of what constitutes cruelty is what has opened wide the door to marital freedom. It includes insults such as the failure to resume or continue marital relations...
...worried for the same cause; but, one by one, they have recovered from their fears. The steel industry now has little concern about an invasion of U. S. markets by German products. But the toy industry is in a quite different position. Before the War, when our markets were wide open to the products of German toymakers, the U. S. toy industry was small. During the War years, with German competition cut off, it grew heavily...