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...production of "Robin Hood" now at the Majestic does not exactly scintillate, still it possesses enough of the solid virtues of the operetta full-voiced chorus, music that has not lost its beauty, a universally familiar and appealing story--to put it over. Forty years is a long time in the changing fashions of the stage: time has left de Koven's music untouched, but has been less kind to the book, and only by the most violent efforts can William Danforth as the Sheriff extract an adequate amount of humor from his part...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...
...recollection of the ill-feeling on the part of the players and undergraduates which resulted from a like experiment in the handling of the round robin series between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in 1914 has prejudiced many against a repetition of the experiment. On the other hand, nothing has been settled really definitely as to the details of the management this year which may vary a great deal from the trial...
...move to give the game back to the players has aroused considerable comment among athletic officials and sporting editors. Regarded as an experiment by the majority of them they recall the series of 1914 when the round robin series between Harvard. Yale, and Princeton, handled in the same way, was the cause of quite a bit of ill-feeling on the part of the players and undergraduates. The subsequent year the plan was dropped...