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...Copley Players yesterday afternoon gave a benefit performance of "Three Live Ghosts", the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the purchase of instruments for the Charleston State Prison band. The suit which Mr. E. E. Clive were in the part of Jimmy Gubbins was intended for a loose misfit, but such has been the change in style in masculine attire since the first production of the play that the balloon trousers and baggy coat would have made him feel at home in any college yard. But if Mr. Clive's costume was not convincing, his acting...
...They rehearse twice a day, for hours. Silvers tells me that no Hasty Pudding chorus ever worked so hard before. But that's what makes them good. They're doing all the latest steps, 'the Charleston' and others...
...forget the dancing of the principals, for it's as good as most of that in our show. Wilson, for instance, who is playing the stenographer, is doing 'the Charleston' as well as anyone I've ever seen...
...penstroke took place some time ago, but publicity was just achieved. The five new monuments are: 1) Fort Wood on Bechloe's Island in New York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River, taken during the Civil War by Union troops after being pounded to pieces by some of the first...
...Jervey retired a year ago from the Manhattan law firm of Satterlee. Canfield & Stone to become a professor in the Columbia Law School. In charge of the instruction in the courses in Personal Property and Trusts,- he quickly made his alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College (1896-97), the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (B.A. 1900 and M.A. 1901), Johns Hopkins (1902) and (comparatively late in life-at the age of 34) at the Columbia Law School (LL.B. 1913). From...