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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway After Dark. Another Cinderella story. Here a man-about-town, world-weary as all men-about-town are in the cinema, dresses up a little boarding house slavey in the height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance...
High Jump.--Tie for first between Blake (P)and Luckett (P) third, Steinmetz (P). Height...
Pole Vault.--Won by Bradely (P); second, Faust (P); third, Castleman (P). Height, 11ft. 6in. (new record...
Pole Vault.--Won by Souther (Standish); 2nd, tie between Thomas (Gore) and Williams (Gore. Height...
...generous critic, however, will see beneath the surface and discover that the Yale Seniors were actuated merely by that general restlessness which is manifest in every eastern university. At Princeton the impatience against tradition has reached such a height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...