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...spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is still rife in the West. Some few weeks ago, fourteen students of the University of Oklahoma administered a flogging in a student editor for having written an article "reflecting upon the traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated...
Miss Moore lends a lovely voice and a telling stage-presence to a production that has been lavishly mounted in all of its fourteen scenes,--scenes which range from a salon of ill-fame in the Ziegfold manner to an ethereal ballet in the Garden of the Palace Luciennes. The play tells only the happy hours in the rise of the milliner Jeanne; and as the curtain falls, she is still The DuBarry, mistress of her fate and of her king...
...Rise. Fourteen months ago 90% of the cigarets sold in the U. S. retailed for 15? a package. Tobacco was cheap, cigaret smoking was at its peak. The future looked fine and smoky to Tycoons George Washington (Lucky Strike) Hill, Samuel Clay (Camel) Williams, Clinton W. (Chesterfield) Toms and Benjamin L. (Old Gold) Belt. Acting in concert (though legally disassociated since American Tobacco Co.'s trust was dissolved) they had just upped the wholesale price of their cigarets from $6.40 to $6.85 per thousand (presumably on the strength of the new Cellophane wrapping). Then, all unknown to Messrs. Hill...
...Fourteen men, out of 68 who tried out for the male parts, were retained in the cast selections held today at the Rogers Building for the Barnswallows', the Wellesley Dramatic group's fall production. Seven of these men are members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, while an equal number are newcomers to Harvard dramatics...
...particularly surprised," continued the economics professor, "to find in Germany, which has gone through fourteen years of continual misery since the war, and is the country perhaps the most severely hit by the present depression, that the Communist revolt in 1932 is very little larger than...