From A 1908 Mem Book

Here boys is what they used for women in Dartmouth College plays in the days when Colby was just another college away off in Maine. Not the reservoir of pulchritude which now uses the postmark of the same town in which is located Bill Clough's hospital, New London, N. H. Dartmouth, these days, imports its girls for the chorus of its Gilbert & Sullivan revivals, etc. And they come from Colby Junior College, New London, N. H. Back in 1906 when the picture under consideration was taken, perhaps the College should have exported what it used for stage women. And thus ruin our foreign trade a score of years earlier than did the tariff barriers, or something.

Anyhow, as any 'oBer should know, the likeness is of Arthur Turner Soule 'OB, who was, in the estimation of the judges of those days, the best impersonator of the catch-as-catch can type of female as could be found in the crowd of some 700 pursuing the long trail to the degree, bachelor

of arts, in Grafton County, New Hampshire. How near the judges came to their mark you can work out by looking at the picture,—and thinking of Mae West. Something few '08ers, or anyone else, will recall is the name of the character in question. The character was "Paula," characterized on the program as, "the imp of the household." Art, take it from one of the survivors, looked pretty good to the collegiate hillbillies who infested the campus of the times. Still and all, the make-up men of the day did lack verisimlitude, when you recall the portrayal of Little Imp Paula took place practically under the eaves of the Mae West era.

The play was "For One Night Only," translated from the German by one Walter Baker. Others in the cast were Harry Wellman 'O7, Ted Wellstead 'O9, Walter Powers 'O6, Ralph Theller 'O9, Happy Wayman 'O6, Eric Kelley 'O6, Short Tommy Thompson 'OB and Barney Dreyfus 'O9.

Two interested readers of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE have written in to set things straight regarding the picture of Hubbard House which appeared in the March issue. From way out in Pasadena, Ted Redington 'O7, has written Jack Clark: "The rest of the occupants of the 'Boys' Club' on the second floor of 'Pest House,' besides 'Toots' Balfe and Bill Blatner, were,— 'Cy' White, Cecil Archibald, Jim Holton and Ike Maynard. Many vivid memories have come back to me,—The plaster from the ceiling falling on our beds,—The time you kicked in the door between our room and 'Carpo' Carpenter's. I could go on for hours."

Richard Steele Southgate 'O7 who is a resident of Hanover, wrote in this fashion: "Among others in Hubbard House that year were 'Swipes' Andrews and 'Cully' Pierce, both of 'O7, on the second floor. At least they roomed there in the fall. My impression is they didn't stay there all through the year. For your information, 'Toots' Balfe and Bill Blatner were both 'O5 (not 'O6) and 'Carpo' Carpenter was 'O6, not 'O7. I do not remember Hubbard being called the Test House.' The only Pest House I recall was the real one down in the neighborhood of Hell Gate and the heating plant." Note:—lt was said in the original Hubbard was destroyed some years ago. Nobody has taken issue with that statement, as yet. LARRY GRISWOLD 'OB.

A. T. Sonle 'OB