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Last year, lurid flames lit Rock Ridge, back of Greenwich, Conn.; 175 scant-clad girls responded perfectly to their fire drill, as the dormitories of Rosemary Hall, famed boarding school for young ladies, burned to the ground. Last week, it was announced that students of Rosemary Hall (i.e., their parents, old Rosemarians, friends and philanthropists) had bought nearly all of a $300,000 bond issue to enable Rosemary to rise phoenixlike from its ashes, more attractive, modern and efficient than ever, and this time fireproof...
...Lurid flames in Rocquencourt village disturbed the sleeping athletes their first night in France. Many sprinted, for help, rescued victims, calmed demoralized inhabitants...
...Western professor arises to point out that it is unnecessary to become alarmed over the excessive intellectualism of our college students. The Chicago incident has left a large and lurid trail across the newspapers, but speaking roughly (as they so often seem to-do out there) almost anything is possible in Chicago. The professor is much more concerned over that vast and impassive army which fills the colleges everywhere, but which appears so stolidly to resist any impression on the intellect at all; and in his remarks one catches a sudden sense of the dismay with which the teaching profession...
COBRA?Somewhat lurid but vitally done play of sex in the home, which many men may consider a bit personal...
...Gina Ashley, the wavering hero-one, Ann Mason carries on with a part that it unsuited to her gentle and kindly temperament. In one very lurid scene she goes completely to the bad--lights real cigarettes, drinks from an empty champagne bottle, and comes out with one awfully naughty exclamation which we almost blushed at. But somehow we knew all the time that she was just the same gentle Miss Mason who was "in love with love" last week, and that she doesn't usually say such things...