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Reviving a rip-roaring gay nineties comedy-melodrama entitled "Thorns and Orange Blossoms", the D. U. Fraternity players will open a three night's stand in the Chapter House at 8 o'clock tonight. Though the first performance will be closed, members of the college are invited to attend on Friday and Saturday nights...
People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
...defeat of Rip Van Winkle by heavyweight Henry Lloyd, the Varsity boxers defeated Princeton 7 to 1 Saturday night at Princeton. Aided by Tiger defaults in the 135, 155, and 175 pound classes the mitmen outclassed the Orang and Black representatives, scoring two technical knockouts and losing only one bout. Chatfield, in the 125's and Jim Kostarelos in the 135's took the first two bouts with technical knockouts and Captain Pete Olney took the 165 pound class to give the Crimson the decision. Dwight Ellis lost a close bout to Foedish...
...South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics are great speed, ferocious courage, dagger-sharp tusks which can rip a dog or man to tatters. Tennessee mountaineers rate them more dangerous than bears. A Cherokee Forest ranger lately failed to stop one with ten bullets, escaped with his life only because his dog diverted the charging beast...
Twelve years ago, when Jim Curley was serving one of his periodic terms as Mayor of Boston, that same stripling, just out of Harvard and a cub reporter for the Boston Transcript, went to City Hall where he heard the Mayor rip into "that old son-of-a-gun," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Last week the same youngster, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, had just polled 100,000 more votes than Democrat Curley to win the Republican nomination for the same Senate seat...