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...Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what it meant in French. Her mother, who lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices...
...descent is checked to about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water, he will be dragged over the ground, bashed and banged...
...farming is done in the U. S. and in Canada, where it was started in 1879 by young Charlie Dalton, now Sir Charles Dalton, 80, onetime Cabinet Minister of Prince Edward Island Government. On Prince Edward Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Charlie Dalton lived near Nail Pond, a wild region abounding in game. Like all oldtime fox trappers, Charlie Dalton was anxious to catch a "nigger"-not a black fox but a "red" fox preternaturally dark by some accident of heredity. Having caught several such, he bought three pairs from other trappers. Instead of selling their skins...
...that morning, and some the night before. They brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth...
Score Freebooters 10 1 2, Harvard 5 1-2. Goals Hopewell 3, Westphalinger 3, Sharp 3, Nicholas 8 Fouls Sharp, Nicholas. Time Six 5-minute chukkers Referee Loef. Timer--H Pond...