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Professor James C. Egbert, Director of the new Columbia Business School recently issued the following statement in regard to the policy that will be followed by this new institution...
...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
...Cousin Egbert was possessed of a considerable fortune but no table manners. Therefore he was deported to Paris by his socially hopeful relatives and bidden to acquire culture. In the process he takes unto himself a valet and returns with the valet to Red Gap. The premier performance of the piece is given by Ernest Torrence as uncouth Cousin Egbert. Second in command is Lois Wilson...
...Died. Egbert Ingersoll, 100, a member of the United States Secret Service during the Civil War and personal messenger for President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton, at Los Angeles...
Harold Lloyd in "Get Out and Get Under" and two other features, "Educational News". and "Egbert at Harvard", will form the moving picture program of the "All Engineers' Night", to be given the evening in Room 110 of Pierce Hall 8 o'clock by the Harvard Engineering Society. The remainder of the evening entertainment, which is open to the faculty and members of the Engineering School, consists of several numbers by a jazz band, banjo acrobat, and a quatet, followed by a reading of Swedish poetry...