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...fall heavyweight crew season was brought to a close yesterday afternoon with two close races on the Charles. In the University race, rowed over the Henley distance in the basin, the crew stroked by P. H. Watts '31 was victor by a margin of six feet over the second boat to finish, stroked by D. B. Lawrence '31. About two and a half lengths behind Lawrence's crew was that of S. W. Swaim '32. One length to the rear was the crew of R. W. Pearson '31. This race was the final outdoor one for the year, and after...
...Lady Lies (Paramount). That a talking picture about a man and his mistress could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert's wide-set eyes, tender voice and Gallic smartness herein make their screen debut. Graciously she suggests the thoroughbred woman who may be kept but who will ultimately be married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter...
Eight youths from Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, Mass. preparatory school, responded to the shrill yawps of a blond 13-year-old coxswain last week and won the Thames Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta, second highest English rowing honor.* Not since 1922 when Walter Hoover of Duluth won the Diamond Sculls, famed single scull race, had the U. S. had so large a share in the glory that is Henley victory...
...length and a quarter. They were later to be presented to Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, the Lord Mayor of London, King George. Browne & Nichols is almost exclusively a Harvard preparatory school. Harvard men last week rejoiced at the prospect of a sequence of Harvard rowing victories after the Henley champions matriculate...
...Marlow. Columbia's 150-lb. crew, in England for the famed Henley race, last week won a practice race from the Twickenham Rowing Club over the Henley distance (|⅞ mi.), at Marlow on the Thames...