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...fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies. But Christian Student has received more than his full share. Standing opposite Murray Dodge Hall, campus religious headquarters, he is passed daily by almost each & every student. At night, when pagan students are emboldened by potations from Bill & Jim's or other anti-prohibition stations, they frequently commune with the Christian Student. Many a sun has risen to find him hugging an empty bottle, or with indecent additions to his costume, outlandish colors on his anatomy...
Evenings, there was open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., last week surveyed the completion of one of the most elaborate U. S, open-air theatres. On a slope of his garden at Longwood, Pa., there were turf terrace seats on which 1,200 people might sit; below these a stage winged and backed by boxwood bushes. Under the stage there were dressing rooms, lounging rooms, large-sized bathrooms. In front of the stage, fountains were ready to lift a shining silver curtain of water...
...Soviet authorities, with the help of the American Near East Relief committee, are performing marvels. There is no disorder, no looting. Soldiers carry out police duties. An open-air city is being rapidly organized. There is a continuous supply of food. On the hillside 400 injured are being attended in tents. An operation room is working day and night. There Dr. Walter Sisson of Wauseon, Ohio, has already performed 130 operations by candle light, since the electric plant is in ruins. The population is full of courage and hope...
...life is told and her time etched in around her with a touch as sure as it is delicate. It adds immensely to the literature of places as well as of people, particularly with a violet, snow-powdered December twilight in old Madison Square, which once was "like an open-air drawing room." What the work represents spiritually, no reader will soon show another, save that the tragedy of a strong, restrained nature, devoid of falsity or baseness, is a moving thing to watch, to experience...