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...arrives when the Army team appears upon the field against an alien foe. Another adversary seeks to trample the Black and Grey and Gold in the dust of defeat. It may be a worthy foe whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering with them...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...
...wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample but is gathered after too many innings of intense conversation. Phyllis Poyah acts it well...
...Ringling Brother's Circus Success did not and even the gentle little speculators were far distant from the adjoining sidewalks. Having thus been balked in our attempt to add a see and bit of sunshine to an otherwise tepid stay in the metropolis we returned to these so much sadder and wiser that to deliver a worthy discuses today is utterly out of the question...
...campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser man. The best reason for visiting Charles Hopkins Theatre these days is to see the little theatre itself...