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...Cosmopolitan Club dance will be given in the Union tonight at 8.30 o'clock. Hector's Westminster orchestra will furnish the music, playing until 1 o'clock. Light refreshments will be served during the intermissio

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmopolitan Club Dance at 8.30 | 5/12/1922 | See Source »

...Cosmopolitan Club announced yesterday that it would not give "International Night" this year. In place of the annual show, a second dance will be given on May 12 at the Union. Hector's Westminster orchestra will furnish the music, playing from 8.30 until 1 o'clock. Tickets at one dollar are on sale at Amee's, the Cooperative Society, and Leavitt and Peirce's. The dance will be informal and light refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmopolitan Dance May 12 | 5/5/1922 | See Source »

...famous "Chocolate Soldier" completely revamped, reset, and brought up to date with the usual Shubert thoroughness. The constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint of Mr. Brian's playing...

Author: By W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

...following figures will not be surprised to learn the superior yields produced from Japanese fields as compared with others, if they keep in mind this statement regarding the Japanese farmer. The figures below give the comparative yields in various countries with the average value of the yield per hector in Italy as the base unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/10/1921 | See Source »

...might criticise the scene-shifters for the long waits between the acts if it were not for the fact that the St. James orchestra with Mr. Charles R. Hector as conductor fills the interim with music--not with noise to drown out the back-stage sounds as is so often the case. We might criticise, too, the choice of play for this week if it were not for the fact that it is done so well. May the St. James players always--as last night--play to crowded houses...

Author: By H. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/19/1921 | See Source »

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