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Nothing better illustrates the fallacy of the "big double bill" type of program than the current offering at the Paramount and Fenway. "The Widow from Monte Carlo" tries so hard to be a smart, sophisticated, gay comedy, and it falls flat with a dull thud that resounds throughout the theatre...
Although it will be some time before the thud of the pigskin sounds at Soldiers Field, actual spring practice for the football men gets under way this afternoon in Briggs Cage...
...recent snowfall inspired last Sunday night's meeting, a spontaneous affair heralded only by the dull thud of cast off shoes dropping on Winthrop floors. Issuing forth into the quadrangle the nude members were soon in the midst of their rites...
...Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening...
Within two months after the last skyrocket boomed at the 1929 dedication, the whole inflated Foshay superstructure of utility, finance and real estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt...