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Yesterday afternoon Mr. L. C. Greenough, known as "Nero the Mentalist", gave a demonstration of his remarkable ability at handling figures before Professor Boring's psychology class. Among his feats are the committing to memory of a series of 12 figures after viewing them for two seconds, ability to tell within 20 seconds the day of the week of any date in history, and ability to square or cube mentally any number up to 100. Mr. Greenough, who has travelled all over the country showing his talent, has secured a long list of endorsements for his work, including the signatures...
...Following this, Weist will sing "Another Sister", with the Pony Ballet (L. F. Holmes '24, A. W. Dole '24, R. E. Stevens '24, A. R. Weed '25, W. W. Wood '24, L. J. Young '23). The entertainment will close with a rendering of the hit of the show "When Nero Played His Fiddle in a Roman Cabaret", by L. F. Holmes '24 and E. S. Pinkham...
...before graduates on December 20, and public performances in Cambridge on January 3, Brookline January 5, West Newton January 6, and Providence on January 9, Features of the play are the music by L. A. Barlow '23, including "Looking Backward" and "The Wireless Blues", and a specialty trio, "When Nero Played His Fiddle in a Roman Cabaret" by J. R. West '23, L. F. Holmes '24, and H. S. Pinkham '25. The singing and acting of C. H. Morgan '24 as Mary Stevens Blair and Cleopatra, have been especially praised...
Among the "specialties" that were featured was the song "I want to tell you", sung by R. S. Flinn '23;, "When Nero Played His Fiddle", with J. R. West '23, L. F. Holmes '24, and H. S. Pinkham, '25; and the "Dance of the Dumb Waiter", with P. L. Cheney 2S. A. "Looking Backwards". "My Gridironed King", and "I forgot to Kiss you Goodbye" were the outstanding song-hits of the show...
...regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have had similar opportunity. Napoleon would have edified thousands with a talk press-agented as "Why I Kept My Hand Under My Waistcoat When I Posed For Photographs." Nero, lecturing on "Music, a Flame", would have been a boon to students of Music 4. And the gentle Samuel Pepys, with his eye for insignificant details, could have constructed a series of lectures on British manners and customs that would cram Symphony Hall nightly...