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Perpetrators of a hoax against Freshmen involving illegal use of the Hygiene Department, were roundly scored last night by Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Medicine, as carrying on a "pretty low form of humor...
Anyone at all acquainted with the Hygiene Department's methods of doing, Dr. Bock, said would know immediately that the whole thing was nothing but a form of joke on a par with the hoax last April when 1500 students stormed the New Lecture Hall to hear a "doctor" lecture on birth control. The announcement of this meeting had likewise been sent out on fradulent cards...
...nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...Vajda story has Garrick invited to Paris to appear with the Comédie Française in 1750. Preceding him there flies the rumor that he is coming over to teach the Frenchmen how to act. The angered members of the French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
...right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie tip: "Do not fuss with your necktie or clothes-be always neatly dressed and let your hands hang at your sides." Professor Harold F. Clark...