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...stage show is fairly entertaining. The dancing is poor, with the exception of a couple who go through a semi-adagio waltz. There is a troop of tumblers who are good. On one occasion the leader of the stage orchestra is seized by them and given a little experience in being tumbled. The setting, as usual, is gorgeous and highly elaborate, and there is some very intricate piano-playing done at one point...
...told Colonel Cole that I was trying to trace a woman who had served in the signal corps, I had been pleased that he showed no surprise. After I became better acquainted with him I realized he would have felt no amazement if I had asked him about a troop of llamas. He was willing to believe that anything might have happened...
Coach Stubbs will undoubtedly use the same lineup which saw action against Dartmouth last Saturday. Cross, Garrison, and Stubbs will start, with Putnam. Wood, and Giddens ready to assume a shock troop role...
Meanwhile 40,000 Chicago employes missed another pay day. Their plight spoiled an otherwise comic-opera effect. A troop of landlords marched into the courts, demanded eviction orders against city jobholders who had defaulted their rent. Orders were issued against four women with dependent children. A janitor was ordered into the streets; he owed $20; the school board owed him $127. Law made these and six other evictions mandatory, but the court in each case granted an extension. United Charities was swamped with calls for help...
Last week a troop of 600 White (anti-Communist) Russians suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...