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What redeeming features there are in the play appear in the really excellent work of Mrs. Ellspeth Dudgeon as the caustic, hard-headed, soft-hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...
...York Philharmonic is the third oldest orchestra in the world, witness to the comparative youth of the modern orchestra. The London Philharmonic is the oldest, the Vienna second...
Five separate divisions comprise the organization of the Instrumental Clubs. These are the Banjo, Mandolin, and Vocal Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Speciality Division. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs are the two oldest organizations, and are devoted to the playing of marches, popular tunes, and light classical selections. In order to make a more balanced program, however, the remaining divisions were added one after the other, four years ago. The Vocal Club, the first to join the two older clubs, is devoted to the singing of light numbers, college songs, and the like...
...matter of historical fact, horses, dean's offices, light wines and beers, bullets and billets, play parts in the past of these two halls. Massachusetts, the older of the pair and the oldest building now standing in the University, has perhaps the less eventful history. It was erected in 1720 at the expense of the Province of Massachusetts to meet the demands of the housing problem. Complaint was made that "a considerable number of students were obliged to take lodgings in the town of Cambridge for want of accomodations in the College", and to please the collegiate commuters...