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Jovial Hotelman Sam Shaw of Manhattan put up another $25 in prize money last week and the Society of Fakirs was reborn out of the Art Students' League, with an exhibition, auction and dance. The original Fakirs, founded 40 years ago, was a convivial society of League students who wanted to raise money to give scholarships during the summer to deserving fellow members. They did this with an art exhibition of "fakes"; parodies of well known pictures, generally those exhibited in the National Academy, and a costume ball...
...chapel controversy, reborn a week ago, has run its course. It has been ignored by the Administration, it has been dismissed by the Boston Herald as a healthy sign of independent thought, it has been damned by the New York Times as the puerile antics of a group of children, it has disappeared from the consciousness of the "average undergraduate"--it is, in other words, on the verge of the limbo for which all student opinion seems destined. Before it passes wholly from sight a few words of valedictory may not be out of place...
...will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements out of his grandfather's songs...
...CRIMSON. Hereafter it is to drift on the sea of available plays without a rudder, governed in its choice of a production now by its set-designers, now by its stage crew, chiefly by chance. Apparently it may have no lasting standards or continuity of purpose, but must be reborn for each performance...
Sejm particularly,"*he wrote in an official bulletin. "I invented the Sejm in New Poland, and therefore the Deputies, and I must say the Deputy is one of the meanest acquisitions of reborn Poland...