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Fresh from their 12-0 win over the Bellboys last Wednesday, the Gold Coasters are scheduled for a close battle with Kirkland today. George Kuhn and Bob James will lead the Adams offense against the strong Deacon line. Except for Johnny Addington and Jack Eberle, however, the Deacons have little offensive strength...
Kirkland and Dunster smashed back and forth in the first half with Kirkland's heavy line stopping their opponents' small backfield at every turn. Johnny Addington, Deacon fullback, was the only real offensive strength Kirkland could produce to compete with George Varn, Dunster halfback, who ran thirty-two yards for the longest run of the game...
Kirkland House, which lost its star back, Roy Moore, and a good share of its line through graduation, nevertheless hopes to pull through this year by pinning its aspirations on the strength of numbers. Chuck Griffith and Jack Addington are the mainstays of the Deacon backfield...
...college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...
...Lewis love of extravaganza breaks out occasionally, as in his description of the suite occupied by Andy Deacon, the following winter, at a Park Avenue hotel: "Across the room was a Gothic stone fireplace composed of an entire castle transported from Normandy." Here Andy casts his company for a touring production of Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Helpful Beth is taken on as a page and understudy to the star. On that famous lady and on the supporting cast Lewis lavishes his gift for satiric characterization and incident as the troupe journeys from one-night stand to one-night...