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...Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only to fall prey to her allure, most commentators fell back on the observation that Miss Eagels' Sadie was "mental" where Miss Bankhead's is "physical." But all were agreed that if Tallulah Bankhead, after her spectacularly successful years in London, wants to stay home and fill the niche that Jeanne Eagels...
Yale and Princeton also fell prey to the deft Crimson racquet-wielders, and the team, coached by Harry Cowles, can be said to have had a most successful season. A few players are now aiming for the Intercollegiates, although the entries are still uncertain...
...world. A cheetah has been clocked at 103 ft. per second, twice the speed of a greyhound. In Africa cheetahs are used for hunting antelope. Hooded and chained, carried to the field in carts, they are released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such...
...whole of humanity has had a wrong conception of the bird of prey. Now take Shakespeare. He used the owl to create tragedy and gloom. That sort of thing made the public associate the owl with a graveyard, but I'm wiping all that out. I am sort of the Walt Whitman of Canada, although not so risque, as I deal with birds...
Weakened in numbers but valiant in spirit, the Harvard quintet meets Tufts tonight up at Medford, for the first game since vacation. The Jumbos having lost to B.U., should fall a prey to the Crimson five, and the game is regarded more as a test under fire for the new five than as a desperate bid for victory...