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...falls in love with a young prima donna who has already pledged herself to his understudy. It takes the understudy's mother, a former friend of the great lover, and a great deal of theatrical pyrotechnics to swerve Actor Tellegen from his quarry, send him off to Lake Como a finer, better man for his sacrifice...
...Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull.? Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6½ tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...
...James Hazen Hyde, wife of the founder of potent Equitable Life Assurance Society, bought the magnificently wooded Villa Serbelloni on the high promontory which cuts Lake Como, most famed Italian lake, into three branches. Villas on this site have passed through many hands, including those of Gaius Caecilius Pliny, King Theodoric of the Goths, King Liutprand of the Lombards, the Counts Sfondrati. Recently it has been an hotel...
Singles--Richard Inglis '33, defeated Pelletier (A), 6-0, 6-1; F. B. Broida '32, defeated Bourbonnais (A), 6-4, 6-4; H. W. Cole '32, won from Como (A), 6-0, 6-0; E. S. Underwood '32, defeated Riendeau (A), 6-1, 6-4; G. D. Key won from Ducharne...
Doubles--Bourbonnais and Ducharne (A), won from Inglis, by default; Como and Riendeau (A) defeated Underwood and Broida...