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Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...games as seconds, have broken even so far, this year. The same combination that will start tonight defeated the 51st Artillery Brigade three weeks ago by a score of 10 1-2--7, but two weeks ago, just before the vacation, they were nosed out by a last minute spurt on the part of Battery A who trimmed them by a score...
...Crimson held a lead of 1 1-2 to 1 at the beginning of the fourth chukker, when the 51st Brigade started a scoring spurt and counted five times to Harvard's twice before the whistle blew, thus bringing the score up to 6 1-2 to 6. In the remaining chukkers, however, the clever play of the Crimson reserves asserted itself, and the game was stored away in the fifth period...
Perhaps the task of self-effacement is made easier by the fact that the lion's share of the play goes to her husband. Mr. Lunt is the "Meteor", the egoistic genius who, in his spurt of overwhelming success, ruins the lives of all about him. Never has he given a more powerful performance, never displayed so artistically, his uncanny instinct for attack and transition. A long speech in his hands never becomes boring. Each new thought that forms in the character's head is projected definitely by changes in his voice, in his body, and his face...
...brilliant last minute spurt, the University soccer team won its second game in as many starts on Soldiers Field Friday afternoon by downing Syracuse...