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...comedy called Not So Long Ago, and it had a moderate success with Eva Le Gallienne in the lead. It was recently made into a motion picture which was played by Betty Bronson (TIME, Aug. 3, CINEMA). The final stage has come, comedy has been set to music. Ivy Sawyer sings and dances the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn't seem possible that a girl would walk so many miles for her beau when now a girl wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Serious | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Quaterbacks--F. Chartkoff, G. C. Clark, Robert Downing, S. D. Ehrlich, W. L. Elkins, W. F. Fitzgerald, R. P. Gibb, T. D. Healy, E. G. Kraetzer, Maurice Kwintiski, N. G. Mongun, T. G. Moore, J. H. Morris, E. T. Putnam, P. H. Reid, A. S. Rudd, H. P. Sawyer, A. G. Sawin, G. H. Sexton, E. H. Steiner, G. A. Tupper, Richard Warren, G. A. Weller, O. L. Winston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST FRESHMAN FOOTBALL CALL BRINGS 175 CANDIDATES FOR GRIDIRON HONORS | 9/29/1925 | See Source »

...thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken possession. More hunting in and out of that dangerous, glacier-hung shore and they put down another depot in Sawyer Bay. Same result. After deciding to give up the Cape Hubbard flight and turn to other objectives of the expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan's Frustration | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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