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...Floor Hosts and Hostesses will be Professor and Mrs. W. J. Crozier, Professor and Mrs. R. H. Wetmore, Professor and Mrs. Bancroft Beatley, and Professor and Mrs. I. W. Bailey...
...summary follows: WORCESTER HARVARD Shamel, Bancroft g. g. Faude Faromille l.f.b. r.f.b. Des Roches Allen r.f.b. l.f.b. Smith Clark l.h.b. r.h.b. Rolland, Sargent Green c.h.b. c.h.b. E. C. Carter Stearns rh.b. l.h.b. Bland Velez c. c. Carrigan Forster l.o.f. r.o.f. Carroll Moreno l.i.f. r.i.f. Tathan Harmon r.o.f. l.o.f. W. D. Carter Martino r.i.f. l.i.f. Rover...
...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
...team the Chester Conklin-George Bancroft combination has a flying start. They play one another off so well that even the antiquated engine, the "Isobel", has to take a back seat, and "Isobel" has captivated her audience as well as her engineer in a case of "love at first toot." But while Conklin and Bancroft are not always funny, they are always fast in a brand new comedy background, namely the railroad field which seems to have infinite possibilities, especially when this pair are out to make a run. Indeed, these two comedians seem to be out to undo...
...Bancroft takes the part of engineer Cannon-Ball Casey recently fired for starting "The Midnight Flyer" at noon during an eclipse, but at present chief throttle pusher of the fast 'Oriole Limited" who prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate...