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Although nominally a gala occasion, the business of Hull-House continued uninterrupted. Before an audience of social-workers and socialites in Bowen Hall, Mary E. McDowell, director of the University of Chicago Settlement, was telling of old days at Hull-House, showering the founder with graceful praise which was received with terse, straight-faced nods of the head...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
Section Two, "The Age of Steam," showed man in a somewhat better light. The audience beheld the emergence of the mechanical engineer and some of his inventions. Toward the end this act took on the gala aspect of a football game as a parade of students appeared bearing banners with the names of various engineering schools. After a short stretch showing how the society was founded "Control," now almost full grown, again popped to the front of the stage, said: ". . . Engineering . . . has been one of the means . . . by which civilization has advanced...
...Gala Night introduces James Rennie as a Hungarian tenor in an operatic comedy which attempts a witty scherzo and achieves a tedious legato. He becomes embroiled with several jealous women, but extricates himself just in time to enjoy the startling success of the little understudy whom he has secretly married. The cast works valiantly...
...Dartmouth's gala Winter Carnival goes many a comely young woman to dance, to watch winter sports, mayhap to taste beverages from Canada, hard by. As convention demands, chaperons are present, a precaution against possible irregularities. Most undergraduates at most colleges regard chaperonage as an unnecessary appendage to a good party. Unless they be their female relatives, chaperons get little attention from the male revelers...