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Heywood Broun: "Some discipline of the sternest sort should be applied to Miss Francine Larrimore. It seems probable that this young actress has a gift for the theatre, but she has made precious little of it in the last three seasons. Instead of working upon a faulty speech and improving it she has intensified it for the sake of comedy effects in cuteness. Miss Larrimore ought to be made to stay in after school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

With a string of five straight victories to spur them on, the University basketball players will face their sternest test of the season this evening when the Columbia quintet appears at the Hemenway court. The New York collegians are rated as the best team in the Intercollegiate League and have made the impressive record of nine victories in ten starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET FACES CRUCIAL COLUMBIA FIGHT TODAY | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot be bent now and then before the storm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUNCH THE TIME-CLOCK | 10/30/1922 | See Source »

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