Word: willards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lowering darkly, Leonor Fresnel Loree quit the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan last week, leaving behind him in a meeting room Presidents William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania, Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central, Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and John J. Bernet of the Erie, together with M. J. & O. P. Van Sweringen of the Chesapeake & Ohio (old Nickel Plate) group. They all, with the aid of lesser officials who were also present, had been discussing the consolidation of the railroads that operate between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio-the Eastern roads...
...Scarlet Fox. This play, written, acted, and staged by Willard Mack, has to do with the adventures of Michael Devlin, a member of the mounted police force in Canada. When a corpse is discovered at the beginning of the first act, it becomes his business first to find out who committed the murder and then to lay hands upon the culprit. Having accomplished the first part of his duty, he visits a snow-bound sporting house, where northern whores are cavorting with their customers. Unmoved by these ladies, Michael Devlin goes on trying to get his man. At last...
Snooty spectators may scorn the mechanical thunder of this Willard Mack truck, but they will probably be unable to do so until they are outside of the theatre. It is asserted that Theatreman Mack gathered his material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes...
...Crimson players won the clash by a seven to three score when J. N. Barbee '28 held the B. U. batsmen to four hits in eight innings. Barbee is indicated as a likely starter on the mound in this afternoon's tilt, though F. B. Cutts '28 and Willard Howard '28 are two other possible starters...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry will conduct the services at Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...