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"History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a...
The play opens with a house party, given in the White Mountains by Mr. Burroughs (Joseph Alger Jr. '22), a wealthy American business man: In the first act Archie Carr (Joseph Larocque Jr. '23) is accepted by the beautiful Evangeline (W. J. Banes '22), daughter of Burroughts, but throught the...
The second act centers about Mr. Burroughs' refusal to allow his Cockney gardner to go into the moving picture business. In spite of his refusal, Kemp (W. C. Jackson '22), the gardner, runs off, becomes fabulously rich, and by the time of the next annual house party at the Burroughs...
Miss Frances Anderson gave a delightful interpretation of Judy Abbott, at first the pathetic little orphan of the John Grier Home and then the happy young college girl and authoress. The part of Daddy Long-Legs was portrayed by Mr. William Shelly Sullivan with a delicate touch of humor and...
The Burroughs are a thoroughly conventional, conservative English family, living in the small, staid town of Knotley ("on-Thames," undoubtedly). Their irreproachable existence is rudely disturbed one afternoon by the return of William, the Black Sheep; or, as William aptly characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you...