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Gregory Kelly, best recalled as Willie Baxter in Seventeen is his "Butter and Egg Man*," and a better performance could not be desired. Sylvia Field is the little stenographer with whom he falls in love, and Lucille Webster is the wisecracking elderly female who used to juggle Indian clubs in vaudeville...
...plainly scheduled. Others, meaning almost everybody, maintain that her personality and her ability are among the few utterly original items in the annual theatrical exhibition, in case you do not recall the name and wish to decide for yourself without waste of time, she played Lola Pratt in Seventeen, and the daughter of the curiosity shop in Tweedles (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923); was a year on tour in The First Year with her husband, Gregory Kelly; and last season was the incredibly dumb girl friend of the family in Mrs. Partridge Presents (TIME...
...when all the village was busy harvesting; Moujik Grachev felt in his trousers pocket, extracted a box of matches, toyed with it nervously, then flitted about the village setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled. To him revenge was very sweet...
...fish for whom the food was bought are long gone. Originally there were seventeen of them. But the smaller ones were eaten by the larger until six pickerel and two sunfish remained in the bath-tub, which was their home...
...regular army, the A. E. F., and the National Guard, no such compulsion has ever been applied. Many of the men who attend summer camps are of legal age, while those who are not are generally youths whose characters are already pretty well formed, since seventeen is the lower age limit...