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Dignified, erudite Grace Abbott, 51, no mother, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, last week was particularly pleased to note that there were then 500 child guidance clinics in 350 different U. S. communities. The first of such clinics started just 20 years ago in Chicago when Miss Abbott was a resident of Jane Addams' Hull House...
...knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly...
Birthday. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, longtime (since 1909) President of Harvard; at Cambridge, Mass...
...William Abbott, J. Q. Adams, R. C. Aldrich, J. D. Allen, Jr., Stuyvesant Barry, M. S. Beeler, E. I., Belisle, A. R. Belliveau, J. A. Blanchard, 2nd, J. R. Bland, T. H. Brackett, W. L. Breese, D. L. Charlton, David Cheever, Jr., J. L. Clarke, David Cobb, B. D. Crauage, P. S. Dalton, Jr., C. D. Dillon, S. P. Duggan...
...included Heywood Broun '10, John Mason Brown '23, William Merriam Chadbourne '00, Owen Gould Davis '92, Robert Edmond Jones '10, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Lee Simonson '09, and Maurice Wertheim '06, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '03, Gilbert Vivian Seldes '14, Rudolf Protas Berle '14, George Francis Abbott '12, Lewis Beach '13, William Harris '19, Sydney Coe Howard, and Robert Ittell...