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...Cartwright will entertain the children with feats of sleight-of-hand, while F. H. Bucks '31 has been offered by the Student Entertainment Bureau to play the piano for the occasion. Refreshments are to be provided...
...tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...
...important for the purposes of the CRIMSON's survey to he overlooked. After attacking the narrowness and specialization of the College Entrance Board Examinations the New Hampshire school superintendent states that it is still possible to palm off on the colleges second-rale intelligence as first-rate intelligence." Such sleight-of-hand, the article explains is due to the fact that a specialized examination, as the Walew Las shown can be prepared for in a specialized way, and that almost anyone can be shoehorned into college by the proper or rather improper, application of expertised intoning methods...
...Robinson Memorial Town Hall, Arlington. In addition to their regular program the instrumentalists will present as special numbers Eustis Dearborn '32, R. B. Harrison '32, and R. S. Watson '32 in a Hawaiian trio; N. F. Bacon '32 in a tap dance; and W. S. Warner '32 in a sleight of hand performance...
...knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...