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...yard dash--Won by V. L. Hennessy '30 (scratch); second, F. V. Nissen '31 (scratch); third, E. H. McGrath '31 (scratch). Time...
...yard high hurdles--Won by E. E. Record '32 (scratch); second, R. B. Corey '29 (scratch); third, R. H. O'Connell '30 (scratch). Time...
...understood the literary methods of the late Joseph Conrad, or discovered until too late how his tales of adventure, seemingly straightforward enough, are complicated with struggles about something called honor. "Take out that honor, we can't have it in" exasperated directors declare at last, but when pencils scratch and honor disappears, Conrad has gone too. Blank spaces must be left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography cannot make more than...
...movie theatre on Fourteenth Street, Manhattan. William A. Brady, his temporary partner, distrusted the new medium; so did most other producers and actors. Most of the theatrical people who, lacking other jobs, worked in pictures, tried out of shame to stay anonymous. Zukor told their names. On a scratch pad one night he wrote a slogan: "Famous Players in Famous Plays...
...always wrote an account of such matters in the Herald. An example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian...