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...Vollmer, General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, denounced "disgustingly inefficient methods the churches are using, the effeminate piety generally observed among clergy...
Adapted by Playwright Lula Vollmer from the Hungarian of Imre Fazekas, this harrowing story is never more than a quasi-historical melodrama. Its title is ambiguously symbolical: a troyka is a Russian carriage drawn by three horses, the centre horse wearing a halter around its neck. The play exhibits all the typical appurtenances of Russian drama, including characters named Bogulieff and Bolotoff, without any of the vitalizing insight of a Chekhov or a Tolstoy. Natascha is quietly played by Zita Johann, whose intelligent presence gave interest to last season's Machinal...
...evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...scoring earlier in the game. The summary: PENNSYLVANIA HARVARD Mathews, g. g., Salmon Linglebach, r.f.b. l.f.b., Stollmeyer Ruslinski, l.f.b. r.f.b., Clark Goodell, r.h.b. l.h.b., Carr West, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rudd Redington, l.h.b. r.h.b., Barnes Houghton, c. c., Kerness Lazarus, r.o.f. l.o.f., Driggs Mitchner, r.i.f. l.i.f., Bodde Bellairs, l.o.f. r.o.f., Haskell Vollmer, l.i.f. r.i.f., Daniellian...