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...Love With Love. Three of our ablest minor players will sit at the angles of the triangle in this modern comedy by Vincent Lawrence, viz: Lynn Fontanne, Ralph Morgan, Henry Hull...
...Salt Lake City the President played golf with Heber J. Grant, white - bearded head of the Mormon Church, and was reported to have gained popularity with the Mormon farmers thereby. Frank R. Kent, correspondent of The Sun (Baltimore), one of the ablest and certainly the most fearless of the journalists accompanying the Presidential party, recorded, as few other correspondents did, that the President smoked cigarettes while playing, which was regarded as tactless, because the Mormons are strongly opposed to the use of tobacco. The President spoke in the Mormon Tabernacle on taxation...
...illness three years ago Representative Garrett of Tennessee became acting Democratic floor leader because of the former's enforced inactivity. Garrett is neither so brilliant nor so bitter, and the Democrats will now feel entirely, as they have already felt in part, the loss of one of their ablest parliamentary strategists...
...still told among musicians how some years ago there appeared in Russia a boy orchestra conductor, son of Italian parents who were singers in a traveling opera troupe. The lad was nine years old and a genius. The ablest musicians of Russia gathered to applaud the splendor of his interpretations. He went on tour through Russia and appeared before huge audiences. Musicians warned the parents not to play him to ruin, that the prodigy should be taken away from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated...
...have received a higher proportion of degrees with distinction than the average; in some instances their percentage his been almost double. In short, despite the handicap of reduced time, they have had substantially better records. Statistics and observation both lead to the same conclusion: a large proportion of the ablest men in College are completing their work in three years...