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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only outlying properties to escape damage were the Botanical Gardens at Soledad, Cuba hit by all previous hurricanes, and the Astronomical Observatory in Zululand, Orange Free State, Africa...
...usual the CRIMSON is offering a year's free subscription to the first Freshman to hand in his study card in the basement of University Hall and get it approved by Mrs. Prindle, the Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness. In 1922 Variety launched a scorching drive against carnival evils. Of 240 carnivals in the U.S., it found only 20 entirely free from such vices as crooked gambling and lewd sideshows. In one year, Variety kept 26 "black" carnivals from getting bookings, to this day will accept no carnival advertising...
...Manhattan's drowsing East 27th Street is an old, cuckoo-clock, three-story building. Once it was a haunted private house, later, among other things, a Knights of Columbus hall, an Armenian church. Since 1915 it has been a theatre, since 1923 (except for one season) a free...
Manhattan's only free theatre, which a Broadway wisecracker once termed "the flophouse of the drama," came billowing out of the imagination of a frankly stage-struck playwright named Butler Davenport, who looks like Edwin Booth (see cut). Taking over the building in 1915 left Davenport $3.17. But $3.17 floated plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Molière and Butler Davenport, with unpaid casts made up of starry-eyed young amateurs, sad-faced old professionals, milliners' assistants, postmen, stenographers, clerks. Now & then there might be a familiar Broadway name like Mary Shaw in the cast, or future Broadway names...