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...Dramatic Club of West Virginia University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...
...Hair", the offering which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan, had as its first shot a color photo of Clara Bow feeding fish to a tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that...
...Knowlton's Point, Ark., 18 flood-refugees were giving thanks for their narrow escape from the growling > waters which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
...Pelican. From London a success of last season necessarily attracted attention since it came on the heels of The Vortex, of similar history, if for no other reason than that. Moreover Margaret Lawrence and that extraordinarily fine English actor, Fred Kerr, were playing the parts. Therefore everybody went in high expectancy? was pretty sadly disappointed...
...Pelican turned out to be a long evening of talk concerning the duty of mothers to children. The mother split from her husband in her youth, had a child, and everybody did his or her duty by the offspring at the last. The concentrated philosophies and sacrifice of this last act compelled the spectator's interest. A program note quoted an old legend to the effect that the mother pelican draws blood from her own breast to feed her young...