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...American stage in the plans already under way to form a National Theatre. Fifty-six representative theatre directors and producers have organized in New York to put the scheme into effect and their first effort is about to be launched. Their main purpose is to build up a last ditch defence in the losing battle of the legitimate stage, outside of the four or five largest cities, against the advance of the "movies...
...silence, away from the rattle-and-bang of everyday. Perhaps we pause in reading and our eyes are misty for a moment as we see dusty roads with cheery grinning boys' faces under their "tin-derbies", faces of boys marching, or we see sprawled figures by a wayside ditch, or stunted twisted forms on stretchers, awful, hidden under their khaki blankets, and we think of a greeting in a voice we have not heard for three long dulling years. We do not cry the praises of this book. But we are grateful to the man who made...
...been that Coach Jones team has reached the final games of its season without the top heavy list of injured men which has here before, been the outstanding characteristic of Yale seasons. But on the other hand, the team has never been tried out by the type of last ditch fight which brings out the utmost in an eleven. The Blue is versatile and has shown great possibilities but so far they have been untested...
...trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave boy, he's got him, thank...
...undergraduates, far outweighs the physical objection. Not until this year's team had been given a taste of real football for one-half of the Princeton game did they find themselves. From then on nothing could stop them. Not until the undergraduates saw their team fighting to the last ditch at Princeton did they know what backing was. After that none could be more loyal...