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Although Boston may have claimed at one time or another to be the hub of shoes and ships and sealing wax, it has never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline...
...been held, healing a onetime particularly acrimonious census controversy which destroyed the good will of the original Twin Cities Good Will Club. Leaders from both cities last week claimed a combined present population of 900,000, predicted an eventual 2,000,000, pledged combined effort in developing the "Hub of the Great Northwest...
...York it is the collective skyscraper at the city's workaday hub that breeds more subways, less money for other needs, and more motor vehicles in the skyscrapers' service to kill more children in the children's only playground, the roadways between the sidewalks of New York...
Lynn on a Saturday afternoon, when Mrs. Daugherty is in the Hub buying lineoleum for the kitchen floor, and diapers for the kid, or Harvard on a Saturday afternoon, when the town goes mad, and forgets lineoleum and diapers, and even the sun is in league with the newspapers at it sets in fiery crimson behind Soldiers Field: is there any choice...
...Geneva squad of 24 players, in charge of Coach McMillin and Mr. Edgecomb, Graduate Director of Athletics arrived in Boston yesterday morning and went immediately to the Lenox hotel where the Pennsylvania team is making its headquarters during its stay in the Hub...