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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness whereof," etc...
Died. Ada Lewis, 52, famed comedienne, creator of "tough girl" roles, actress in 40 production* during a career of 38 years in which she appeared with numberless celebrities, including Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, Lew Fields, George Arliss, etc., etc., etc., etc.; at her home in Hollis, L. I., of complications following a nervous breakdown seven months ago, while under contract to appear in Sunny, which opened (see Page 00) in Manhattan last week...
...should surprise no one to learn from Washington press dispatches that the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church is officially aghast at the wholesale introduction of taxi drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy...
...students that press for entrance. Their finances and facilities, they say, are inadequate to care for the mob; they are forced, however reluctantly, to restrict their numbers, put up the bars turn their backs on the democracy that was one of their cherished ideals in the dear dead days, etc., etc. But strangely enough they do nothing to modify the great annual advertising campaign that brings the candidates swarming about their ivied portals. We refer of course, to the intercollegiate football season...
...luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time, etc...