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...Chicago Fair," he remonstrated. Next day as he drove up to the 14th Street entrance of the Fair a squad of cavalry and a battalion of troops snapped to attention. Citizen Hoover smiled and waved as a 21-gun salute went off and the Brothers Dawes, Charles Gates and Rufus, came up to greet him. They visited the California and Iowa exhibits, the Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said Mrs. Hoover. "It's hard to get him away when...
April 1 (Easter) Prof. Rufus M. Jones, Haverford College...
Murder at the Vanities (by Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong...
Thus begins Earl Carroll's current show, a melange of melody and melodrama. Thriller Author Rufus King (Murder by the Clock, Somewhere in This House) has not concocted a murder mystery which would stand on its own scarey merits. Producer Carroll has not provided quite so lavish a treat for playgoing eyes and ears as in past years. But the combined Carroll-King offering does entertain...
Straus D-21: Rufus M. Meadows '32, of Buffalo, N. Y. (St. Mark's School). A member of his Freshman crew squad, and now a first year student in the school of architecture...