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...goes quietly mad. With his family crumbling about him, thick-headed Father Ardsley cheerfully congratulates one & all upon their general good fortune, believes that conditions will improve, all will be well. Very softly, Eva, a crazy gleam in her eyes, begins singing "God Save The King." Her younger sister gives her one frightened glance, rushes off to join her married suitor, thus completing the cycle of destruction...
...Services Rendered (by William Somerset Maugham; Sam H. Harris, producer). A novel in shortcuts, this Maugham play deals with an English family and its friends. The War has been over 15 years, but its wounds still fester. Father Ardsley is a solicitor, a portly British character of the type that sings carols on Christmas cards. He has a wife, who he does not know is about to die of an incurable disease, and three daughters. Lois (Jane Wyatt) is pretty, selfish and extremely attractive to a rich older man. Ethel is bitterly disappointed in an earthy, loutish farmer whom...
...Boston pioneered whenever they could get on a men's court. Clubs around Boston, where Miss Sears is an influence, began to let women use their courts. In Manhattan women play on the Junior League and Colony Club courts; out-of-town courts are available for them at Ardsley Swimming & Racquet Club (Ardsley-on-Hudson) and at Nassau Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club on Long Island; in Chicago they play tournament matches at the Racquet Club and in Detroit the wives of members may use the Racquet Si Curling Club. At the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Club last week contestants...
...these characteristics are visible in the dog which Judge von Stephanitz designated at Madison as best-of-breed (and by this judgment, style-setter for 1930) : Champion Utz von Haus Schutting of Mardex Kennels, Ardsley, N. Y. Champion Utz is a long, low, dark dog with powerful forequarters, splendid. It was a friendly sniff which Champion Utz gave his judge. He had smelled him before, last year in Germany, when Judge von Stephanitz once before pronounced him seiger...
...Ardsley, N. Y., Mrs. Oliver J. Vetiano said she awoke to find, not her husband, but his best friend, John Condon, standing beside her bed. He was dressed in pajamas and said: "It's all right. Don't make a fuss. Your husband and I made a swap. We understand each other." Mrs. Vetiano made a fuss, but not Mrs. Condon...