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...wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved a dud. When she came in she said: 'Peter, you should have been with me this afternoon. I've had such an interesting time !' " Apparently the Kyne family likes its walks adventuresome-and that's how Peter B. Kyne strikes me-a charming adventurer who writes romances with that...
...political issue, Defense Day will probably turn out to be a "dud," forgotten as soon as the day is past. Only a few other Governors, such as Governor Sweet of Colorado, a progressive Democrat, and Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, a LaFollette supporter, fell in behind Governor Bryan...
...Nothing much happened. The Jehad did not prevent the British Moslems and the French North African troops from fighting against the Central Powers, nor did it hold back the Arabs from declaring their independence and fighting as Allies of the British in Palestine. The Jehad proved to be a "dud" shell; but when the Grand National Assembly at Angora abolished the Califate and sent the Calif, Abdul Medjid, to Switzerland in exile (TIME, March 10), the dud proved to be a bomb. The reverberations of the explosion still resound throughout all Christendom as well as the Moslem world...
...also receive a contract guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance. In 1922 "You and I" by Philip Barry won the prize and was produced in 1923 in New York and Chicago. In 1923 the award went to Miss Dorothy Kuhn's comedy "The Dud" which is scheduled for production in New York this season...
Miss Dorothy Hartzell Kuhns has this year been awarded the Belmont Theatre Prize of $500 in New York for her three act comedy of character, "The Dud." Miss Kuhns was a special students at Radcliffe College in 1919-20 and 1922-23, studying dramatic technique under Professor G. P. Baker '87 of the University. She also acted in productions of the 47 Workshop and The Harvard Dramatic Club. Miss Kuhns came to college from the National Cathedral School in Washington...