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...swifter, the blood a little hotter. At Palermo, Janey finds her olive-skinned prince. He invites her to a house-party at his ancient castle far up in the hills, whereupon Janey promptly despatches her male escorts on a cruise, and sets off for the hills with a guileless chaperon and two flappers. Arrived at the ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe return of the rest of her party...
Last week Col. Edward W. Starling, Secret Service officer, one-time chaperon to John Coolidge (TIME, Oct. 25), left Washington on a site-seeing trip...
...declared, the "Unit," expanded to 29 members, was "ordered" from college by the Navy Department to its self-appointed training school, with seaplanes and mechanics provided by private subscription. There were no uniforms, no drills, no salutes. There were the "Lieut," the naval officer in charge; the "Colonel," combination chaperon and supply officer, a civilian; except for these two, everybody called everybody by his first name. The team work of a football field took the place of military discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were 28 trained flyers ready...
...members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were guilty of gigantic disrespect, both to ourselves and to our chaperon." The ten giants of disrespect were suspended from college for two weeks. In Washington, most of the blows were opposed to the ideals of Kappa Kappa Gamma. A neat one was delivered by William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, than whom there is perhaps no more learned Senator. He reminded the Senate...
...most popular of modern plays. For 20 years or more, scarcely a week has become history without some company somewhere painting its title on its varying shingle. The play is farce, dealing with the impersonation by an undergraduate of an elderly lady to act in the capacity of chaperon at a college party. The current company is by no means distinguished. The horseplay seems singularly oldfashioned. It is still funny. Lucky Sambo. Negro musical comedies tipped Manhattan off its tolerant balance some seasons back with Shuffle Along. Ever since then, there have been imitations. Of Lucky Sambo...