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...tackle the Crimson, without a worry about the ability of his powerful Yale eleven to make short work of Maryland. The Southerners, however, had ideas of their own on the subject, and proceeded to outplay the Elis for the greater part of the game, finally losing out by a scant 16-14 margin after giving the New Haven crowd its biggest scare of the season. This year Coach Jones will again leave his charges to their own devices to come to Cambride, but it is safe to say that he will await with more than ordinary interest the announcement...
...took but a scant hour and a half for the crowds to exhaust the 1500 extra tickets to the Dartmouth game which were placed on sale yesterday morning at Leavitt and Peirce's by the B. A. A. to holders of season ticket books...
Last year, lurid flames lit Rock Ridge, back of Greenwich, Conn.; 175 scant-clad girls responded perfectly to their fire drill, as the dormitories of Rosemary Hall, famed boarding school for young ladies, burned to the ground. Last week, it was announced that students of Rosemary Hall (i.e., their parents, old Rosemarians, friends and philanthropists) had bought nearly all of a $300,000 bond issue to enable Rosemary to rise phoenixlike from its ashes, more attractive, modern and efficient than ever, and this time fireproof...
...Coolidge) and the Festival Quartet of South Mountain. The fare consisted exclusively of units which read as follows on the program: "Quintet in G Major (for two violins, two violas and 'cello) Opus 111: Allegro non troppo, Adagio, Un poco allegretto, Vivace ma non troppo presto." Scant nourishment for program-music fans, who demand information in print as to the doings of wood-nymphs, animals, ships at sea, Oriental ladies, babies, magicians, policemen and princesses whose doings, we are so often told, are portrayed by the gyrations of flutes and bassoons and the contortions of the conductor...
...knees, there is a knock at the door and the Wandering Woman, a mysterious figure, enters. She is well treated, adds her prayers to those of Rose-Marie. The secret is accordingly revealed, and Rose collects the reward of virtue, piety and poverty. The music. The libretto offers but scant opportunity to the dramatic composer. There is little agitated action, no clamor, no shooting. Consequently the music is calm, unruffled, graceful, cleverly scored. While it cannot touch Olympian heights, it remains colorful and suave. The performance. Ina Boúrskaya, as the heroine, injected as much warmth into her role...