Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent agitation for a boxing team, therefore, would seem to have a sound foundation. Figures show that at the present time there are between 100 and 150 men working out in the Hemenway Gymnasium any where from three to five times a week under the direction of Lawrence Conley, boxing instructor. With so much interest being shown, it seems that there ought not be much argument about the advisability of organizing the sport into teams when the Student Council takes the matter under advisement at its next meeting. BY TIME...
Excellent use is made of a capable chorus throughout the show. The occasion when it is most effective is the Christmas scene in the trenches. One hears the Italian soldiers sing "Stillige Nacht" across the battle-fields to their German opponents and the latter reply. Doubtful as the authenticity of this scene may be, it comes as close to real beauty as the talkies have yet approached, and it is especially unfortunate that poor reproduction spoils the singing in several places...
...acts of the stage show are good but the booker made the mistake of engaging three tap dancers on one program and good as they all are the dose is a heavy one. There are one or two comic acts that meet with some success. As for Nan Halperin, the headliner, the word propriety seems to have lost its meaning for her. And this is Boston...
...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
Last week Reigh Count, Mrs. Hertz's champion rooster, won the grand prize at the Chicago Poultry Show...