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...Corbett sisters, whose revue is to be staged at the University Theatre for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week have just returned from a remarkable triumph at Detroit, where they came in competition with talent from all parts of the country...
...Corbett sisters appeared on the variety bill for the last day's program at the big convention of more than 5000 auto dealers held at Detroit. The huge audience in Masonic Temple hailed them as the best of the whole vaudeville program...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...Committee on Admissions voted against admission of the Woman's Party; the Committee of Presidents of. the national groups in the Alliance did the same. Mrs. Corbett Ashby (English), International President, exclaimed...
...Where are girl mothers dying like flies, according to Mrs. Corbett Ashby...