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...Uptown, West. The Japanese husband of an American woman discovers an incipient love affair between his wife and an old suitor, loves his wife sincerely and deeply, and since their baby has just died in an accident, he decides to go secretly back to Japan. Just as he is on the point of leaving, however, he feels an inner urge to see his wife once more. He steals into her bedroom, strangles its occupant, and, rhetorically celebrating the meeting of mother? and child in heaven, commits hara-kari. The acting is uncommonly good...
That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...
...must be employed only as part of the beauty of the scenic picture. Partly in answer to the urging of Jane Cowl, Ethel Barrymore, David Belasco and others of prominence, Anathema, Andrevev's powerful drama now at the Yiddish Art Theatre, is to be translated and brought uptown...
Both teams made their first run in the second inning, and Middlesex counted twice in the eighth, when Pollard sent Uptown as well as himself across the plate with a long home run. The yearlings, however, rallied in the ninth, and taking advantage of J. Knowlton's error and three consecutive singles by L. B. Lockwood, Thomas Campbell, and K. N. Hill, they tied the score. The tenth proved scoreless for both nines, but brilliant individual work by Pollard in the eleventh brought the schoolboys out of a closely contested struggle with a well earned victory...
Frederick Keffer Kelham of the class of eighty-eight, a young lawyer, was killed on the elevated railroad on Saturday. His body was picked up by the conductor of an uptown train in Fifty-third street, near the eighth avenue station, at 5.30 o'clock...