Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demand for tickets to the Holy Cross football game this afternoon drained heavily the supply of tickets remaining at the Harvard Athletic Association yesterday. Every seat in the stadium, and the colonnade, on the colonnade roof and in the emergency stands constructed on the track was gone by the 10 o'clock yesterday morning. To prevent activity on the part of the ticket speculators, 8,000 of the 12,000 rush seats in the wooden stands at the end of the stadium were put on sale during the day. The remaining 4,000 tickets will be one the sale...
...marching through the lobby singing: " London's best is falling down, falling down, falling down! " For that is what it did. It brought to American audiences little except exquisite taste, a striking shadow scene, a few smart lines. Produced in the intimate and expensive atmosphere of the Century Roof, it may attain a factitious popularity. The Magic Ring. There is an antique ring and whoever wears it links arms with luck. The heroine starts out as a poor organ grinder. And does she get the ring? And does she marry the lovely fella in the last...
...originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera Italiana" would have to be sung in Russian,-his laudable attempt to teach the Russian language in one lesson, for as he says, it is so easy that every...
CHILDREN OF THE MOON?Magnificently morbid demonstration of the dramatic values of insanity. The second act is the severest emotional test of the year. RAIN?Jeanne Eagels in the highly sexed South Seas. Rather like a vigorous nightmare, with the sky dripping steadily on the tin roof overhead...
...building will be 150 feet square, faced with brick. The interior is to contain a regular sized diamond, lighted by a large sky light supported by steel roof trusses. At the center of the diamond the clear height to the trusses is to be 42 feet. Outside the playing field are to be two tracks, each 12 feet wide, and having 12 laps to the mile with banks at the turns. One will be placed at the same level as the playing field and have a cinder surface. The other track is to be directly above with a wood floor...