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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter. Her voice is of that tricky, gymnastic variety which permits its owner to do all sorts of stunts to the great astonishment of the audience, but never enables her to carry clear through a song with any beauty of performance or depth of feeling. A girl must be a triple...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CINEMA CRIMSON PLAY GOER DRAMA | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

Somebody ought to take the Harvard boys aside and give them a few lessons in manners. Last winter, when the compulsory chapel dispute was raging at Yale, they sent down to New Haven on special trucks an edition of the CRIMSON in which they told Yale just what ought to be done about it. Saturday, with Princeton as their guest, they distributed at the gates of their Stadium copies of the Lampoon, in which they expressed their opinion of Princeton, and a most unsavory opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

...will oblivion's bitter cup be soon prepared for her. Having brooded over two generations, mostly girls, as Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Freshmen not out for other sports at present will, for the most part, sign up for the indoor game. Candidates not making the first squad are assured of plenty of action in the interclass competition to be initiated this winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SQUASH ASPIRANTS GATHER IN LOCKER BUILDING | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Freshman squash team will compete in Class C of the Massachusetts League during the winter. A number of preparatory school stars are among the racquet wielders expected to report tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SQUASH ASPIRANTS GATHER IN LOCKER BUILDING | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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