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...Economist Keezer's associates on the board was William Trufant Foster, first president of Reed College. When Reed was founded in 1911 by the widow of a steamboat tycoon as a cultural centre for the Northwest, William T. Foster had been called to get it going. He built a surprisingly intellectual college with no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, complete student self-government. In 1920 President Foster resigned* and thereafter Reed coasted along under competent but not always vigorous leadership. After Messrs. Foster & Keezer had been working on the Consumers' Board for six months, Mr. Foster...
...starting times of feature pictures printed below are supplied by the theatres. University - "Steamboat Round the Bond," 3.10, 6.35, 10.00 "Here comes The Band", 1.45, 5.10, 8.35 Fenway-"The Payoff." P. M., 1.10, 3.46, 6.22, 8.58; "Ship Cafe." P. M. 2.26, 5.02, 7.38, 10.14. Fine Arts-"Maria Chapadelaine," P. M. 1.30, 3.45, 5.50, 7.55, 10.00. Loew's Orpheum-"I live My Life," A. M. 11.20; P. M., 1.30, 4.20, 7.10, 10.00. Loew's State-"I Live My Life," A. M. 11.20; P. M., 2.05, 4.50, 7.35, 10.20. Metropolitan-"The last Outpost...
...chief impression that we carried away from Steamboat Round the Bend was that it should have been much more exciting. And, strangely enough, it had everything to make it so, including a steamboat race and the hero saved from hanging all rolled into one episode. But it just didn't quite come off-for us, at least...
This last of the Will Rogers sagas is about a Mississippi steamboat captain who turns his boat into a waxworks to make enough money to save an accused nephew from hanging. (If that brings any sort of picture to mind.) And when the nephew is definitely condemned, the frantic uncle steams madly up and down the river looking for the one witness of his nephew's innocence...
...course of things he gets into a steamboat race to Baton Rouge (scene of the nephew's forthcoming execution), and at the very height of the race, who should be see standing on the shore, waiting to be lassoed, but the star witness...