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Balance Posnet was a horse-thief and a drunkard. Feemy Evans was a liar and a trull. Hard people, these pioneers of the good old West. Their callused souls were untouched by the points exhortations of the godly Eider panicles. Blanco Posnet and Feemy Exans were had; they forsook the straight and narrow, and travelled the primrose path to hell. They called on the devil and they sneered at God Bad Bard...
...George Bernard Shaw and God were too much for Blanco and Feemy. Between the two of them they turned these hardened sinners into sentimental softies. What God couldn't supply George came through with. God furnished a rainbow and a baby with the croup, and George brought forth situations and ejaculations equal to the reformation of the most abandoned reprobates; between them they turned the trick. Blanco and Feemy lost that rotten feeling, and as the curtain fell their wings began to sprout. God was probably pleased; Shaw certainly was; and the audiences who witness the Stagers' production...
...professional actors, W. S. Burrage '33, President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, W. C. Gregg ocC, H. G. Hutchinson '33, S. D. King '34, and E. I. Montague '35 have small parts in the Stagers' production, "The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet" by G. B. Shaw. R. Breckinridge '34 has a minor role in the curtain raiser, "Shall We Join the Ladies?" by J. M. Barrie...
...fiesta this week, hundreds of youths gathered at the edge of town near the railroad station. Men climbed upon six big cages, reached down and opened them. Out walked six bulls, blinking in the sunlight. They were strong, lithe, handsome, each branded with the mark of Don Ernesto Blanco. They looked around, uncertain what to do, until from the crowd of youths came a yell: "Hah! Hah! . . . Toro!" The bulls lowered their heads, charged the crowd. The crowd took to its heels, the bulls stampeding in pursuit...
That afternoon matadors killed the six fine bulls of Don Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...