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After creating the feeling that it's a mighty big world after all by fifteen minutes of kaleidescopic views behind the scenes of a great hotel, Miss Shannon, delightfully if scantily attired, creeps through a bedroom door and things get underway with a vengeance...
Wild Waves is a well-intended play about the fauna which infest a third-rate radio station belonging to the recent firecracker school of playwrighting that got underway about the time that Broadway was produced. As a portrait of the sort of station where the accompanist does his own announcing, where a befuddled Negro rings all the time-signals and most of the other work is done by one harried man, Wild Waves is novel and, according to oldtime radio folk, valid. Unhappily its author, Radio Dramatist William Ford Manley, has the notion that the source of rapid-fire comedy...
...second season of rugby at Harvard will get underway when the preliminary organization meeting it held on Tuesday evening, February 9, according to M. E. Bothner '34, president of the Harvard Rugby Club. Although the Club has not as yet been recognized as an official sport by the Harvard Athletic Association, it will have the equipment of Soldiers Field at its disposal; regular uniforms, supplied by the Association, and athletic awards and badges. It is hoped that enough students turn out for this sport to institute an organized series of intramural competitions such as that played by the five University...
...portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead lorry...
Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing?the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...