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...Story. At 24, Lou Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely...
...which an Irish tenor sends the show out for recess every now and then and sings a couple of ballads. This one even takes time to tell a funny story when the plot begins to lag. Fiske O'Hara is his name. In this play, by De Witt Newing, he is not a poor Irish lad arriving in this country but a full blown business man. The notion of Elbert Gary suddenly holding up a conference of the Steel Corporation to sing about shamrocks is interesting but illogical. The Big Mogul is seldom interesting...
...story by Reporter Jack De Witt of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
...Harvard Law Club of New York Scholarship, F. De Witt Talmage...
...George Moss Kendall '24 of Bridgewater, John McKinstry Kimball '24 of Portland, Maine, Edwin Katte Merrill '24 of Bedford Hill, N. Y., Frank Manning Seamans Jr. '24 of Weston, James Bentley Squier 3d '24 of New York City, Theodore Lyman Turney Jr. '24 of Yonkers, N. Y., Edward de Witt Walsh '23 of New York City, and Henry Wheeler Jr. '24 of Boston...