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Columbia University suffered a similar drop in their summer school enrollment with a 26 per cent decline. The University of Wisconsin was off 18 per cent, and the University oI Illinois, 22 per cent. Last year throughout the country there were 102,457 students doing summer work. From the results so far it appears there will be a decrease...
Jules Bledsoe, whom the fates have both blessed and cursed by having first brought him to fame by the means of a single hit, "OI' Man River," is the star attraction of the show. His part in the production, however, is limited and he does much better with selecting "a from hits of the past than with music which the present authors prepared...
Child of Manhattan. There is a curious phonetic trait, found in certain parts of Brooklyn, which causes people to substitute the sound er for the sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property...
...which sell more tobacco than does Lexington. When Lexington was the largest tobacco market in the U. S., Kentucky was producing more tobacco than any other State. Now North Carolina produces more than Kentucky and Virginia, the third State in production, combined. , I am getting my information from some oi our State papers which make the claim that North Carolina has the largest tobacco market in the U. S., and produces more tobacco than any other state. This information is printed on the front page while the editorial page is devoted to a column "cussing out" the manufacturers of tobacco...
More mobsmen were inflamed by six members of the Cyprus Legislative Council who denounced Storrs for enforcing a recent order-in-council by His Majesty George V. It erects tariffs explicitly rejected by Cyprus' own Council. "Citizens! Greeks!" cried the disgruntled Councilmen, "KATΩ OI TΥPANNOl!" ("Down with the Tyrants!"), "KATΩ OI ΞENOl!" ("Out with the Foreigners...