Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock, supper will be served in the quadrangle by the Freshman Dining Halls Committee. During the supper period, three of the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will render short programs. The Mandolin Club, under the leadership of J. B. Cowin '32 will play, among other numbers, Brahms' Hungarian Dance and Baynes Destiny Waltz. This will be followed by Officer of the Day and a Football Medley by the Banjo Club with W. S. Warner '32 conducting. A. H. Parker '32 will direct the Vocal Club in singing Bullard's Winter Song and German's Rolling Down...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...Henry was born in the same State as her husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals...
Innocents of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier is a French cabaret singer known in the U. S. only to the few who have heard him in Paris, or on nights when he did not have a cold during his short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman...
...factor in the early scoring. With one out, F.E. Nugent '29 singled and went to third on a passed ball, whence he scored the first run of the game on the drive of E.H. McGrath '31. J. A. Prior '29 reached first when Becker fumbled his grounder, the Crimson short stop reaching third on the play. At this juncture, the two baserunners worked a double steal, scoring a second run. Prior counted a moment later on a wild pitch...