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Canadian Professional. Dominion professionals played their trade championship as the usual curtain-raiser to the Canadian Open. Leading U. S. professionals seldom mix in this affair. Last week it was won by Percy Barrett (Lake Shore Club, Toronto), 145 (36 holes) ; Dave Spittal (Savannah, Ga.), 147; Nicol Thompson (Hamilton, Ont.) and Fred Miles (Mississagua), 148 each...
...loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense. There is a notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good syncopation by the McCarthy sisters; terrible singing by Gordon...
After telling your readers how much Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has desired to keep out ot public notice, you proceed to give intimate parts of her history, even telling of the fracturing of "a small bone in her shoulder, rudely tearing aside the curtain that you say she wished drawn about her own private affairs; following her on board the steamer and there showing how clever you are by pointing out the number of her rooms and showing her in bed with "white gardenias on her dresser...
...that causes true devotees of the Theatre to hesitate, possibly to worship a little. To see John Drew upon the stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their...
Starting its last week before the Yale series, the University nine is scheduled to oppose Springfield College on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. On Saturday it will travel to Medford to tackle the Tufts nine, and on Tuesday of next week, the curtain will rise on another Yale series with the Eli Class Day festivities as its setting...