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...gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner of Will Rogers that Mr. Washburn thought good enough to center in italics in the middle of his pages. Will Rogers still sleeps soundly.) "Had the League of Nations become the power it was planned...
Valparaiso University is 50 years old. It was founded in 1873 by two young teachers, H. P. Brown and 0. P. Kinsey. Until 1920 it ran an un- eventful course, but in that year, on the crest of post-War prosperity, its enrollment climbed to 4,000, it sent a football team to the Harvard Stadium and it introduced fraternities. Then hard times hit the Indiana farmer, fraternity rows broke out in the University, and the enrollment fell in one year to 1,260. In 1923 the University was still in difficulties and the Klan bought...
...Fletcher- Doran ($1.75). Caught in a snow-storm on the Scottish Border, a young artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
That carries no colours or crest...
...Hopwood manner (you know where the scene is laid) is worth a hundred "Getting Gertie's Garters" and "Demi-Virgins", and shows what vaudeville can be when it tries to break the spell the mawkish hack writers. Mr. Mason has all the "fat" lines, and he is on the crest of the wave all the time. The rafters were loosened and the audience was left hungry for more...