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...theatre, tossed overripe fruit & vegetables at the actors because the play presented "an Irish girl in the situation of remaining all night with a man not her husband." Mr. Sinclair has since revisited the U. S. six times. His fifth visit was in The Merry Wives of Gotham, in which, to his displeasure, he was to take the part of Seamus O'Briskey. Bitterly Mr. Sinclair protested that there was no such name in all Ireland. The author then admitted that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character...
When you said that ''Monday at Reno is known as 'graduation day' because on that day divorces are handed," some grass-widows and widowers of Gotham must have felt slighted because you failed to mention "Wednesday matinee" in New York when the "Undefended Divorce Calendar" is called in our Supreme Court. Although adultery is the sole ground of divorce in the Empire State, our Courts have held that actual coition need not be proved, but that proof of the inclination and the opportunity is sufficient. Consequently the large audience which always attends the "matinee...
...addition to the relay quartet, six other men are making the trip and will compete in the Gotham games in their special events...
...Hennessey '30, W. C. Rowe '31, Vernon Munroe Jr. '31, and E. E. Record '32 will compete against the runners from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, and Columbia University. Hennessey and Rowe were members of the 1929 team which captured a first place at the Gotham event last year. F. E. Cummings '30, who ran anchor in this meet last season, although scholastically eligible now, will not make the trip. G. A. Tupper '29 was the fourth member of this quartet. Munroe and Record, who will be running at the games in the Empire City for the first...
This wire and wood sculpture has just been on exhibit...in the Fifty-Sixth Street Gallery in New York City, where it created no little stir among the ranks of Gotham critics and art connoisseurs...