Life — November 10, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Rah! Rah! Broadway! Undergraduate Days in a Musical Comedy College (11 is the afternoon of the annual Football Game between Tait and her ancient gridiron rival, Colton; and the famous Tait Stadium, which is ap- parently just four tiers high, is filled with ho have hurried over to the field after a quick luncheon at the Lambs Club. The boys are clad, according to ide Oxford with ‘varsity excited undergraduates, true college style, in bags, white sweaters T’s on their chests, and patent leather dancing pumps; and are slightly bald. The girls, on the other hand, are blonde, As the gray-haired college band strikes up the traditional Tait foot- ball song: “I’m Just a Panic with the Girlie: Haroun, a Freshie (he is fresh from the Keith Circuit), rushes out before the stands and sings eight lines of something unin- telligible, after which he squats down and kicks out first one leg and then the other. The assembled students all join in the chorus, tossing their arms while he passes up and down before them doing a series of back-flips, and finally disappears, chased by four “Sophs” with blue chins.) [J SDERGRADUATES (in_uni- son): Hurray! Here comes nter Gus, the Campus He drives up before the stands in an old Ford, which falls to pieces whenever he touches it. Gus explains that he calls it Cal, because it does not choose to run in 1928. Amid the general laughter “Butt” Letanp, the’ Tait By Corey Ford Captain, enters in football “togs.”) Unpberorapvuate (in unison): Hurray for “Bull” Leland! “Bunn” Lecanp (making his to the side of Doris Scrop, seated in the stands appropriately attired for the game in @ pink ballet skirt): Doris! Will you marry me? Dons (l 00 k- ing sadly do the field): Yes, “Bull,” I will marry you—on condition that you win the game for old T: Unxover- GRADUATES (in unison): Hurray for Doris! (RoNnaupb PreTUER- enters, He is a tenor, made quite a hit in the first road company of “The Prince of Pilsen,” and is working his way through College by breaking in new Dunhill pipes. He is known among the students as a “grind,” owing to the fact that he wears tortoise-shell glasses; and consequently he has been ignored by every one on the Tait Campus except Dons, who adores a man who smokes a pipe. As Ronaup spies Donis, he falls back a step, clasps his left wrist in his right hand, and shouts): Doris! n it is true you intend to marry... (He ‘unclasps his left wrist and extends both his arms, adding at the top of his voice): Isec...you do not...care. Donts (ina quavering yell): I told you I could only love athlete. an. You afraid to play... foot- ball. You are a . +. weakling! (The under- graduate band leader raps with his baton, and the first violin sounds a_ long, plaintive note.) Ronan (drop- ping his arms to his sides with a loud slap): Then I must say fare well. ..to the girl o”...my dreams. (He turns his back upon Doris and faces the Colton stands.) Farewell, dear heart, For we must part, My Dream o’ Love is sever'd: Though I farewell, In my heart shall dwell, The times we spent together... (Please turn to page 32 comicbooks.com