Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...love with Cressida, a comely young woman whose father, soothsaying Calchas. has deserted to the Greeks. Troilus thinks his case is hopeless, prepares to take it lying down, till his good friend Pandar, who is also Cressida's uncle, discovers his secret and takes control of the affair. By judicious scheming, trickery, persuasion Pandar arranges a meeting, silences scruples, fans the flame, stages an assignation at his house on a stormy night. Troilus wins his love and is temporarily happy. Then Calchas in the Greek camp manages to get his daughter exchanged for a Trojan prisoner. Greek Warrior Diomede...
...affair is to be an informal one, and will be followed by a two-fold entertainment, literary and musical. In the former, Professor K. B. Murdock '16, master of the House, will read selections, probably from Benchley, and P. G. E. Miller, tutor, will render a slight skit in the manner of Edgar Lee Masters, which he has procured from "a certain mysterious source...
...book is a family affair, something that Dwight Taylor found in the trunk of his late great stepfather. J. Hartley Manners, and renovated with the help of Samuel Hoffenstein (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing). Very little attention is paid to it when dapper Fred Astaire, separated from his sister Lady Cavendish for the first time, is talking, dancing or singing with willowy, sexy Claire Luce...
Patrons and patronesses for the affair will be: Professor and Mrs. Ferguson, Professor and Mrs. S. W. C. Lieder, Professor and Mrs. Andre Morize, Doctor and Mrs. W. K. Jordan, and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Maddox...