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...dissuaded when the pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage...
Died. Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, commander of the German scouting squadron in the Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...
...would be were Harvard nearer New York or Philadelphia. Some few people in Boston are probably resisting the prohibition amendment; perhaps they laid in their supplies while the laying was good. But doesn't President Eliot realize that most people, from the poor man who can only afford a "hipper" of Rot Gut to the inventive genius who shoots his champagne across the border in a torpedo, are co-offenders with the "good society." Once more the umpire has rendered his decision, but with his back turned toward the play...
...first interscholastic games under the auspices of the Princeton Track Association took place on Saturday afternoon at the 'Varsity field. Thirty-one schools were represented and one hundred and sixty individual entries were made. A feature of the day was the half-mile run, in which Hipper, of Barnard, the interscholastic champion, was defeated by Manvel, of Pingry. Lawrenceville won the handsome banner offered as a trophy by scoring the greatest number of points-33. Berkeley was second with 20 1-3 points, and Pingry third with...