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Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...
...diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan; 2) a cake with 58 candles baked at the White House; 3) a croaker; 4) a Boy Scout scroll; 5) a song by youngsters from Pittsburgh ("Happy Birthday, dear President, happy birthday to you!"); 6) a greeting card with some 40,000 signatures, including those of Democratic Governors Roosevelt, Ritchie...
...Brattle Hall performance. Encouraged by the favorable criticisms of several English professors, the cast went back to work rehearsing a week before the recess, and were able to make great improvement in several characters, and especially in the rather difficult exits. Entire new costumes for Mr. and Mrs. Croaker, and new wigs, by Rothe, for the whole cast, improved the staging of the play very much. The actors were highly complimented by the Hartford people, and it is generally felt that the performance was a credit to the society and to the college...
...acting was about up to the average of amateur performances. W. E. Dorman '98 as Croaker just missed being good. The fault was chiefly in his makeup. He looked altogether too cheerful for a "croaker." Allan Abbott '96 and Sturgis Coffin '97, the former as Jarvis, the latter in the double role of Butler and Bailiff, both did well. J. L. O'Brian '96 as Lofty deserves most credit. He entered thoroughly into the spirit of his part and showed genuine dramatic ability...
...Croaker, H. H. Hill...