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...undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet whose lurching gait, acquired in the War, is misshapen, horrible...
...Irene Castle Mclaughlin of Chicago, onetime arbiter (dress, dancing, hair, gait), became last week a special police officer-"So I can protect dogs and other dumb animals and see that the law is enforced regarding their treatment...
...general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along the way. The tutorial system, in other words, still seems to be superimposed, to integrate the course system; whereas ideally the course system should merely supplement it. This seems...
...Love You). The Grand Street Follies have always depended largely on protean Albert Carroll, impish imitator of the grimaces and posturings of famed actresses. In this latest edition−a mockery fest which simultaneously jibes at world history, actors, producers, Broadway hits−Mimic Carroll simulates the jiggling gait of Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch...
...literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither. An' sae was Lord Stevenson, famed controller...