Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...
...fact that Nick Van Alstyne's son-in-law tries to ruin him after having been handed a profitable business by old Nick and that said son-in-law gets into difficulties with another lady furnishes the background for the plot of the play. The action and the humor of the play are centered around "Henrietta," of whom there turn out to be three. On the whole, though the play is not uproarious from start to finish. It is amusing and there is plenty of action and much laughter to be had, especially in the third...
...Sigma Phi fraternity and the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity teams were tied for first place honors. These teams also have a rating of 1000 percent in their standing in the tourney. Since the Law School does not have any examinations, teams in the tournament from this school will continue action...
...come down to things that happen more quickly than action by the legislature, this week sees the appearance in Boston of two men, eminently worth while, culturally speaking, who if box office returns are to be trusted, will fill two of the largest auditoriums in Boston--Emil Ludwig and Count Keyserling. That such visitors can rival "Bossy" Gillis as a drawing card shows that the spark of culture, at least, is not lacking, and proves once more the advantage which Harvard men enjoy over their collegues in institutions more richly endowed by nature but not in educational opportunity...
...John Jacob Abel, 70, has added many a stone to the house of human knowledge. His special field has been pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...