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...Palace Theatre for 5?, with a free lunch thrown in. Roxy's theatre is showing four feature films and giving away a room and bath for a dime. Another equally disastrous theatrical season, it is prophesied, and the show business will be back to the magic lantern. But there are people who still have plenty of money. They are Policeman Meshbesher (Hugh O'Connell) and those other fortunates who have been able to buy a seat on the force. It is Mrs. Meshbesher (Mary Boland) who declares that she has so many diamonds "you can see me from...
Miss Pennington's spontaneity does not extend to the plot, which seems to an admittedly intolerant Playgoer just another refurbishing of ideas that were old even before "Jack O'Lantern" came to town. Such matter as the old pun about coffe-grounds, or the mix-up taken from O'Henry's "Gifts of the Magi," or the business of loading teacups with sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped...
...clock in the Upstairs Common Room by Professor A. M. Tozzer '60. of the Anthropology Department, and curator of American Archaeology and Fihnology at the Peabody Museum. fessor Tezzer's subject will be "Explorations and other Activities of the University Abroad," The talk will be illustrated by lantern slides. Professor Tezzer and Delmar Leighton '18, dean of the first year men, are to be the guests of the Freshmen at dinner before the talk...
...French Civilization at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Tomorrow Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, will speak on "Freedom of Speech" in the senior common room white F. W. C. Hersey '00, instructor is English, will talk on "A Walk Through Hardy's Wessex," which he will illustrate with lantern slides...
...largest room on the first floor is the auditorium, a compect assembly of mechanical excellences, designed to enhance the lectures and films presented under the institute's auspices. Decorated in soft colors and seating about three hundred people, it is equipped with the most modern projectors for lantern slides, silent and sound films. At the side of the platform there are several brass plates of switches and buttons. These control the electrically driven shutters in the skylight overhead, the concealing lights, the velvet curtains and the multiple drops. These drops comprise three blackboards which disappear into the files, allowing sketches...