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...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...
...president of the club, and picaresque heroine of the current show. He gives us Miss Mae La Verne, who is pretty well described by her first name, and he captures all the seductive coarseness that his playwright colleagues have put into the part. Arnett McKennan, '37, as Gloria Mundi (And some of the best touches are to be found in the names.) makes a wholly satisfactory simple-minded, love-tossed heroine. In general, where the show is not brilliant it is still consistently diverting, and should have a prosperous...
...veronica mundi veronica munda...
...twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...