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...wife as "the henna-haired heckler." or "my weazened old Red Head." He relishes a reputation as a benevolent reprobate. His glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock the Phillips Brooks House Association will entertain 35 children in the Brooks House living-room. The children have been recommended to the Association by the Cambridge Welfare Union, as being those who would not otherwise enjoy the Christmas holidays. The Welfare Union has been able to contribute valuable statistics on what is lacking to each child so that the Phillips Brooks House will be able to provide them with needed clothing in addition to the usual toys...
...Cartwright will entertain the children with feats of sleight-of-hand, while F. H. Bucks '31 has been offered by the Student Entertainment Bureau to play the piano for the occasion. Refreshments are to be provided...
...supper hour, by candlelight, two hours before the evening carillon-curfew, the Commons Scholar from Oxford will recite a parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
Vinegar Tree. Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely...