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...Avenue and 42nd Street. Last week Dr. Edwin Hatfield Anderson, 73, announced his resignation after serving as its director for 21 years. He will be succeeded by Harry Miller Lydenberg who went to work for the library in 1896, one year after its creation by the consolidation of the Astor and Lenox Libraries and the Tilden Trust. For 20 years Mr. Lydenberg was chief reference librarian, becoming assistant director...
Today, backed by Astor & Harriman money, edited by the President's most affectionate brain-truster, is the most quoted magazine in the U. S. Hating though they do to mention a magazine, newspapers quote it every week. That such luxurious free publicity should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
...magazine, observed that the work of various women's clubs might well be correlated. In cooperation with the club women the Herald Tribune secured potent speakers to give them food for their forums. The first meeting, scheduled for the Herald Tribune's auditorium, overflowed to the Hotel Astor. The next, held at the Waldorf, was an even greater success. This year no less than 38,000 women applied to the Herald Tribune for tickets, and 25,000 actually registered for the five sessions. The ballroom had seats for only 2,500. A thousand others packed the adjoining halls...
Modern: "Now and Forever"--Gary Cooper. Shirley Temple, and Carole Lombard are the leading attractions in this film. On the same bill is "The Case of the Howling Dog," a mystery drama, with Warren Williams and Mary Astor in the chief parts...