Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scene where this "most charming in years in Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...
Over 300 tickets for the National Allied Bazaar have already been sold by members of the Allied Relief Committee in the University. These tickets will continue on sale at 25 cents each at Leavitt and Peirce's and the CRIMSON Building, or may be purchased from members of the committee until Saturday when they may be obtained only at the Box Office at 50 cents each...
...Take Your Medicine," now running at the Hollis, offers Alexandra Carlisle and Einar Linden an excellent opportunity to display a great deal of spontaneous art. Miss Carlisle is worth going to, merely to hear her voice, which is a great relief from the variety of speaking that greets the "tired student" from the runway. Mr. Linden has a difficult part, and makes the fullest possible use of his opportunities. From the very start he captures the sympathy of the audience by his skillful representation of temperament. To do this, he exhibits a remarkable variety of truly cultivated parlor tricks. Even...
Next week will be the last week of the Jumble Shop on Boylston street, Boston, which is run for the benefit of French relief work. Everything has been marked down, particularly a number of books and musical instruments...
...spent for various forms of indulgence. The figures for alcohol run into the billions; automobiles, tobacco, moving pictures and chewing gum follow. Contributions for missions usually reach a few hundred thousand dollars. Such a table ought to be compiled with reference to the expenditures of college students for war relief and for luxuries. There would be an interesting, if shameful, comparison...