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Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
Despite its fame among naturalists, Ward's is almost unknown to laymen, even in Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
...himself as a liberal Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court by dissenting twice in the decisions by which the Supreme Court invalidated the Child Labor Acts. Of the present Court, only Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds and Brandeis can recall serving with that outspoken rugged individualistic bachelor Justice. Arch-conservative George Sutherland took his place. Everyone knew at the time of his retirement that one of the public causes which Mr. Clarke hoped to serve was the League of Nations, of which, defying tradition, he was an ardent partisan even before he left the Court. But as the League...
Chicago Time. Last March Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round...