Word: actes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart. He gowned her and be jeweled her from the Portuguese treasury, took her cruising on the Amelia, of which a notable appointment was a royal bed eight feet wide. Later Gaby danced in the Folies Bergeres, toured...
Incidentally, even the Crimson is not so free from "The stress of competition of the business world." On February 28, there appeared a half page advertisement of the University Theatre featuring signed testimonials from several editors. It is rumored that each editor received forty dollars for this act of kindness...
...most unusual, and best received act on the bill is a one act playlet "The Undercurrent" which is admirably performed. Listed with this rather tense drama is a mixed group of performers, chief among them being Bob Hall who amuses with his extemporaneous songs, in which he takes the bald gentleman on our right and the fat lady in front for his subjects. The Lester and Irving trio produce one of the cleverest acts on the program with unusually difficult athletic stunts. Tony and Norman put on a bit of fast repartee, while Bobby Watson and Mary Lawlor, two former...
Progress. The experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative...
Explained Dean of Women Florence Donahue: "Father McNichols said the girls could do their love-making off the campus. They came here to study. He is tired of seeing the girls act like campus widows. It would not have been so bad if they talked to only one boy at a time, but when they stopped to talk to one they were soon chatting with seven or eight...