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...General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
...these days the school year was much different from the present one. Commencement came the Wednesday preceding the last week in August, and there was a four-week vacation granted after it. Then College resumed until the first week in January, when a seven week rest was allowed. The next stretch lasted until the "Thursday next preceding the last Wednesday in May, when a two and a half week vacation took place. Then there was steady work until Commencement. Exams were held in March and August...
...full houses all summer in Manhattan (TIME, May 18), then went on the road, leaving in its place a troupe which has been doing- fairly well with The Merry Widow and The Chocolate Soldier (TIME, Sept. 21). Aborn's Mikado opened in Boston last month beginning a four-week repertory engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends of the Erlangers are the Shuberts. They formed a rival company, called it "The Bostonians" after the famed troupe which flourished 25 years ago, opened a week earlier with The Mikado in Boston...
Died. Gustave Frohman, 75, oldtime theatrical producer, tour manager for William Gillette, Margaret Anglin, Maude Adams, John Drew, onetime office boy of Horace Greeley, brother of Producer Daniel Frohman; after a four-week illness; at his home in Manhattan...
...Plymouth Theatre. Essentially it is another subscription series, somewhat similar to the one practiced by the Theatre Guild at present. Under the leadership of an organization known as The Professional Players, six of the outstanding dramatic companies and plays are to be presented at the Plymouth, each for a four-week engagement; the first, already definitely selected, is to be Philip Merivale in "Death Takes a Holiday", which is now enjoying a long run in New York...