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Kitty Gordon has the feature act at Keith's this week. The former movie actress, assisted by a talented company, sang and displayed several brilliant gowns on Monday night. Marvel, a dumb mute, performed clever and difficult dances in the same act. Chester and Warren did acrobatic stunts; Caito Brothers jested and clog-danced; Mabel Burke sang; and Swift and Kelley offered "Gum Drops", and act filled with patter...
There is no doubt that Gray's words go straight to the heart, for they embody in simplest fashion the most universal experience of human nature. His "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen," "Some mute inglorious Milton," "The rude forefathers of the hamlet," "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," are quoted and loved the world over. The most attractive edition of the "Elegy" ever printed. Quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. A. & C. Black, London. Published at $3.00. Special price...
Owing to an acute attack of rheumatism, Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind, deaf and formerly mute woman, was unable to appear at the opening performance at Keith's, and so the U. S. Jazz Band, which has just completed a successful tour of the Pacific Coast, became the headliner. Miss Keller will be back on the stage as soon as her health pormits, but in her absence the rolicking, catchy strains of the Jazz Band will prove a stellar attraction...
James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
...announcement of the second series of training camps for officers recalls to mind that murmuring concerning injustice in selecting candidates for the first series are still echoing. Those many confident and by no means mute aspirants whose confidence in their own ability surpassed the examining officers' confidence in that same intangible quality, are still unshakably convinced that they were harshly treated by an unsympathetic government...