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...horsepower aeroplane motor is being installed at the Newell Boathouse to keep the water in the tank in motion. The management hopes in this way to make the blade work for the oarsmen a little more natural. The work on the motor will be completed this week...
...taking an oar himself in the "A" crew for several weeks, he has throughly demonstrated his method to members of the University squad. And his assistants have done their job well among the other crews. The oarsmen have studied the new stroke with particular attention to the slide, blade work, and body swing. Since the work has been chiefly in fundamentals no races have been attempted although often the crews have been given short sprints to liven up matters. Coach Stevens has not tried to grade the men. Two crews were early made up of Juniors and Seniors...
...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...
...Fighting Blade. Richard Barthelmess appears a trifle more romantic than ever in round helmet and shiny breastplate-a Roundhead Captain in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Divesting himself of these friendly ferries, he enters the enemy stronghold at Staversham as a spy. Spying he is spied upon, detected, made prisoner. There follows a hideously tiresome torture scene-the only blemish of the production. Finally the lovely heroine files his fetters and he escapes via the water route beneath the castle walls...
...Cheat. The spectacle of a hot iron sinking into the white contours of Pola Negri's left shoulder- blade should be 50? worth to anybody. If it isn't there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins...