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...priest: if he will introduce her to some natives, she will give his parish some money. Natives introduced include a Spanish painter who constantly kisses Actress Boland's hand; an English poetess and her Slavic, piano-playing paramour. After the painter compromises Actress Boland, a trap-drummer from Champaign, Ill., woos and wins Daughter; and after Citizen Hubbard has become thoroughly sick of the whole business, the Hubbards head for the homeland. Actress Boland, struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister...
...responsibilities which he must take up next autumn have been borne for the past decade by 65-year-old David Kinley, a member of the Illinois faculty since 1893, oldest state university president. Situated in the neighboring towns of Urbana and Champaign, not far from the geographical centre of the state, the University of Illinois squats down and spreads out over 1,548 acres of campus and farm land. In Chicago, three hours by rail to the north, are the great medical schools (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine...
...Like the Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
...Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280½ hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together...
...Champaign, Ill, Jack Elder (no relative), Notre Dame halfback, tied the world's record for 75-yard dash...