Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bushman, Billie Dove). Francis X. Bushman returns as the stage director who develops a raw girl (Billie Dove) into a great actress. He loses his position because the achievement has made his continued direction superfluous. Later it is revealed that he is quite necessary after all. The temperamental star can act only when she fancies her former teacher is present. The film has some good moments, but it seems woefully stupid to characterize the hero as the hypnotic control over an erotic heroine instead of the vital factor in her art. Warner Oland is back as the heavy cinema lago...
Only one of last year's two finalists is appearing in this year's tournament. He is J.F.W. Whitbeck '27, captain of this year's tennis team. Alden Briggs, G.B., the other finalist failed to return to the University this year. Frank Donovan 1L., former Notre Dame star, and a seeded player, like Hill has never appeared in a University tennis event previous to this year...
...from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying...
...last year's "Big Three" championship team to report were F. B. Cutts '28, a practically unknown twirler last spring whose relief work in the Yale series carried the CRIMSON to victory in two of eight games, J. E. Tobin '27, regular first sacker, and W. B. Jones '28, star outfielder. R. R. Ketchum '29, and E. L. Molloy '29, mainstays of the Freshman hurling corps of a year ago were also in uniform...
...Crimson prospects will undergo a serious test Saturday when J. P. Crosby '28, star back of the 1925 team, and R. W. Turner '28, who held down the center position in the scoreless tie game with Yale last year, take language examinations which they must pass to remain off probation. The loss of either of these men through scholastic difficulties will be a serious blow to the University hopes. The outcome is expected to be known by next Wednesday...