Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-week tour, presenting its 43rd production, East Lynne Gone West, or Virtue Triumphant, Even Unto Death. Squeezing the last few drops of humor from the well-worn procedure of burlesquing the melodramas of the '60s, East Lynne Gone West was for the most part a very solemn affair. The young Mask & Wiggers seemed incapable of brushing aside the influence of their stodgy elders, projecting an atmosphere of good-natured undergraduate fun across the footlights. Saving grace of the performance was Thomas Gihon Jordan '31, the heroine's melancholy, faithful dog. The music was unbelievably pedestrian, inferior...
...half a dozen or more of the Harvard team decide to compete, Farrell plans to accompany them. "Probably they will not want to enter all of the five games," he said; "each is a two-day affair, and that's a lot of racing after a college season. The chief meets are at Cologne and Stockholm." George Connors, Eli mentor, will probably return after the Oxford-Cambridge meeting...
...bandage drawn tightly across his little abdomen, Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden hobbled gallantly into the House of Commons on his two rubber-tipped canes last week, leaned for support against the dark oak despatch box table and made in 62 minutes flat his Budget Speech, normally an affair of two hours or more...
Born to Love (RKO Pathe). In this one Constance Bennett suffers, loves, and suffers. In an emotional moment during the War she has a love affair with a U. S. captain. When she meets and marries a handsome English toff he passes the captain's baby off as his own, retaining custody of it after they are divorced. Miss Bennett suffers in marriage with him, suffers when separated from her child, suffers when she must live in poverty and not even see her old sweetheart for fear Sir Wilfred Drake (Paul Cavanaugh) will hear of it and continue...
...value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with those who died for "the great cause?" It is hoped the CRIMSON will change its standpoint and try and see this affair in the same light as the University authorities. Robert F. Evans...