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Mantell Makes Many |s i Friends Over TeaCup-mnaedonofnKiniscrylidni-heC. Porter. Hall to be at League Dancing Class—All University Girls Expected.“To have seen what I have seen. See what I see.”Don’t be surprised if any Garrick Cluber tells you that Mantell is his very latest and dearest friend. The casual observer told the following things about the reception at the sorority dinner table. He asserts that Mantell called Ruth Orchard his peach and Peggy Adams his sister-in-law as “brother” Jack married an Adams. The observer says that the whole Phi Psi chapter left before the reception t a } was half over, due to the fact that they— I had no attention whatever from the : girls. The line of fair admirers were | three deep to €. Porter Hall who was I entertaining them with an account ofhis recent college cases. Mr. Hall was quite confident of his powers of charming until he beheld Vaughn Deering surrounded by even an extra layer. Mary Schumaker, thinking he j was the servant who shimmied in I “Macbeth” invited him to the Woman’s ! League dance Saturday afternoon, 1 which invitation he accepted with pleasure.Mr. Lindsley broke up the receiving line as all the women of the faculty gathered around him to hear his “Good English.” The observer said that coeds were at a disadvantage as the women of the faculty got all his attention.The observer bribed Gertrude ! Miedema for her reserved standing— j space long enough to hear Mantell tell an i the following anecdotes: “It was when ng; I was a member of an amateur playersclub—such as the Garrick Club—that my cousin Jim was asked to take a minor part as Benvolio in “Romeo and a, Juliet”—the cause being due to themeer.A.'edgle»r-2a-illness of one of the players. “All you're to do Jim is to laugh, and then after Tybalt kills Mercutio, rush in and say, ‘Romeo, Romeo, brave Mer-ng j cutio’s dead.’ I was playing Romeo i and felt well qualified to act as rly J prompter in case Jim should forget, tell j Just at the dramatic moment—-off the ni- stage I heard a bewailed, ‘Oh!’ I looked- ed off to see cousin Jim hesitating. After many demonstnhtive signs I finally got him on the stage, arid he rushed in saying, ‘Mercutio, Mercutio, in | brave Romeo is dead.’ ”The observer says that the climax came when the president of Alpha Hall told Turk Smith goodbye andsaid “It. has been a delight to entertain Mantell’s caste and we were So glad to have you with us. Do tell Mrs. Mantell that we missed her.”er-*henales-ingdeionryph-
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Bloomington Indiana Daily Student
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 13, 1919
Page 4
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