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About 117 well-fed motion picture producers are gnashing in the neighborhood of 1,000 gold teeth over the tidings that Rudyard Kipling has parted with the film rights to Kim. The gnashing is particularly reverberant owing to the fact that he has given them to an amateur in the field of flickering drama?and a woman, at that! The woman and the amateur?Miss Maude Adams...
...with alarm that a recent critic has noted the fact that H. G. Wells has passed the half-century mark in books published. He considers that, perhaps, Mr. Wells may not be so great as many are apt to consider him. And in this he may be right. But Rudyard Kipling, and many of the most famous living writers have been prolific, and if the present era is not to go down to posterity as barren of great literature, it must achieve fame through the works of these...
...competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes was held last night in Sanders Theatre before a large audience. The Wade prize of $50 was awarded by the unanimous decision of the judges to Oviatt McConnell '23 of Buffalo, N. Y., who read for his piece Rudyard Kipling's dramatic poem, "Gunga Din". Eli Allen Smith '25 of Worcester received the first Boylston Prize of $35 for his selection, "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" by Henry Watterson, while the second prize of $25 went to Norman Edwin Hines '23 of Portland, Conn., who read John Bright's "Faith in the People...
...Oviatt McConnell '23--"Gungha Din" by Rudyard Kipling...
...Richard Arthur Zinn '24--"Hymn Before Action" by Rudyard Kipling...