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...showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...
...scholarships, working on the N. Y. A., and a few here and there are the so-called blue-bloods whom she never gets to meet. (I mean the blue-bloods.) She also realizes that living in Cambridge is very convenient especially if there is a comfortable sofa in the living room, and the family is out for the evening when daughter is "having company." She learns "lines" quickly, and finds that the old adage "early to bed and early to rise" makes a girl healthy, happy, and safe, is true. Nine times out of ten that is the case...
...injured fireman is Joseph C. Bedard, '40, who, witnesses said, was struck by debris and parts of the sofa hurled out of the window by his mates. He was rushed to the Cambridge city hospital in a police ambulance and found to have received severe back contusions. He was given treatment and held by the hospital for further observation...
...Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades to be covered up. The now famous military conquest of girl-on-sofa is carried out with tremendous enthusiasm by the forces concerned...
...covers, flails his arms wildly, skids on the rug, reverses his field beautifully, and slams the door behind him gratefully. Outside, he quiets his throbbing pulse and takes careful inventory. Unscathed. The little devil never laid a stinger on him. He finished his sleep uncomfortably on the sofa...