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...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
Divorced. Frank Tinney, famed comedian, by an interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...
...Bernays, H. B. Lloyd-Jones, and H. J. Wedderburn will be the Oxford speakers, and Yale will be represented by Basil Davenport. H. T. Rowell, and C. H. Willard, of the Senior class...
None but the brave deserves the tribute of Art. In Davenport, England, was unveiled a granite pylon, upon it, vitalized in bronze, Courage, supported by Patriotism, scorning Fear, Despair and Death. Below was an inscription dedicating this art a memorial to Explorer Scott and his companions who perished, after reaching the South Pole...
...Dramatic Club for presentation on Saturday night. The performance will have nothing to do with the new Yale School of Dramatic Art, headed by Professor Baker, and is being presented by the Yale Dramatic Association unaided. The translation used will be an original one prepared by Basil Davenport, a Yale Junior...