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...Hollis '35 and P. G. Vitagliano '35; Second base--H. F. Gillette '35, C. P. Kostarelos '35 and W. F. LeRoy '35; Third base--W. C. Crawford '35 and P. L. Hollins '35; Short stop--A. J. Akin '35 and G. F. McInnes '35; Outfielders--E. A. Crane '35, R. M. Knowles...
...treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that she has a better notion...
...adroitly tactful that the other members of the jury presently come round to her way of thinking. A real estate salesman, a garage mechanic, the proprietor of a Greek restaurant and two gibbering intellectuals are easy for her to deal with. An Irish cook is less tractable until Mrs. Crane promises her a job. When she has convinced all of her peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with...
...great southern desert of Arabia, which had hitherto constituted the largest expanse of wholly unexplored land outside the Antarctic continent. He will illustrate his talk, which is open to all members of the University with motion pictures. This lecture is made possible through the kindness of Charles R. Crane...
...canvasbacks, redheads and lesser scaups. Pintails, mallards, black ducks and geese were little below normal. Low water concentrated what birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed...