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...Vernon, N. Y., some nudists calling themselves The Nudist Theatre Guild recruited a few professional actors and put on a half-clothed version of the old stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused...
Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
Since the House was established. Copey, as he is known to his admirers, has annually read to its members at about this time. But contrary to his usual custom, this year he is announcing beforehand some of the selections which he has chosen. Among them are Browning's "Epistle of Karshish" and "Up at a Vills," Keate' "Ode to a Nightingale," and Tennyson's "Ballad of the Revenge." As Copey intends to read only poetry, he is especially cager that all those who have real interest in that field be present...
...fear that the neglectful student had better relinquish any vague hopes that on the morning of the exams he will find any of them unprinted. We have heard stories about the student who, armed with a pair of white flannel pants, tried to get a copy of an exam beforehand by sitting on the form. Undoubtedly there are other such legends floating about the College...
...banquet, chatted with students, educators, relief workers and Girl Scouts, addressed a convention of insurance agents, made a radio speech, then got up before 4,000 citizens to talk on her assigned subject of "Teachers and Their Proper Preparation." But she had warned conference sponsors beforehand that she would probably stray off her topic, since she seldom writes speech or notes. "I just speak," said...