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"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a top-notch adventure story, supplemented by capable acting. Drawing freely from Rudyard Kipling and other authors who have portrayed men under stress of physical danger, Adolph Zukor has transformed William Yeats-Brown's book into an hour of absorbing entertainment.
Then after reading some "boners" with which freshmen at one of the great western colleges had answered their intelligence tests, Copey recited Kipling's "Truce of the Bear," and read Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley on Kipling" and Stephen Leacock's "My Financial Career."
Declaring even this too sweeping, "concession" to Kipling's lesser breeds without the law, London's super-Tory Morning Post alarmed that the Linlithgow Report "confirms the worst fears of the Conservatives of the country." On Dec. 4 moderate Conservative Stanley Baldwin will stake his position as Leader...
Following his usual custom, Professor Copeland has not made public a list of selections which he will read. In the past he has read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and many others. No matter what he reads, the audience is sure to be pleased.
The names of the selections have not been announced, but in the past "Copey," has read from Stephen Leacock, Rudyard Kipling, the Bible, and other sources. Until 1932, when his health forced his withdrawal, Professor Copeland live in Hollis Hall in the yard, and he still maintains a great interest...