Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...
...that point the Maintenance Department stopped in, deciding at once that the Chimney was not tall enough. But the architects would hear of no additions to their classic structure. The maintenance department had an old fan which they then placed at the top of the flue to draw the smoke, if not from the fireplace, from the wood itself. But again the smoke moped in a corner of the Common Room...
...part of Bob Lampoon. That was the time when a very valuable eight-foot section of the famous Yale fence mysteriously disappeared from Pachs Studio in New Haven, on the Saturday before the game. It was recovered by its rightful owners, however, on the eve of the classic battle...
...this year for the first time Yale will play Princeton on the Saturday after the Harvard game. Whatever may have been the causes for this change in Yale's schedule, Harvard hopes that it will not be continued after this year. Much of the appeal of the Harvard-Yale classic lies in its traditional status as a farewell appearance. It is fitting that it should be, for both teams, the climax of the gridiron season...
...safe overnight. These 9000 tickets cost less than $50 to print and when they slipped through the presses there was every expectation that they would bring is $36,000 to help balance the H. A. A. budget. Well, they will remain unsold, and today's 52d annual classic--I use the word advisedly--will be witnessed by less than the customary full house. It is an astonishing thing to find H-Y tickets going begging...