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Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR CREWS COMPRISE LEADER'S FIRST SQUAD | 3/11/1925 | See Source »

...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAMMON DEFENDED 99.44 PER CENT PURE | 1/28/1925 | See Source »

...staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Salome, Orientale (Pavlowa ballet), Cleopatra and Scheherezade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Bakst | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...Western college presidents, true education is no longer obtainable elsewhere than on a Western campus. Chicago has long been recognized as the year-round home of the Muses. A few decades more of this general hegira, and all that will remain East of the Alleghenies will be Plymouth Rock, Cleopatra's Needle, and the World's Series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE EAST | 11/6/1924 | See Source »

...manifest some merit. Miss Reed's tears are shed principally over her baby. This year it is a perfectly legitimate baby, somewhat contrary to the custom of her recent plays. It dies just as she is about to go on to play the big scene in Antony and Cleopatra. . She screams she can't go on, and then does. In the last act, her husband turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress but a failure in the home. All this is told very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays: Nov. 3, 1924 | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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