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...irreverent to perfection; Jane Sterling makes an excellent middle sister, a beautiful, exuberant animal; and Helen Trenholme does more than her share as the eldest, who, though by no means languorous, is calm enough to fall in love with a bashful musician, and charming enough to carry him off. Aubrey Mather is equally flawless as the corpulent colleague of the hero, who irritates and is irritated by his fellow pedagogue in numerous amiable ways. Phoebe Foster is quite satisfactory as the quietly domineering aunt, relieved of her nieces in time to scare the leading housemaster with the threat of marrying...
...down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie...
Married. Constance Cutter Morrow, daughter of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Aubrey Niel Morgan, Welsh cricket player and Cardiff department store executive, widower of Sister Elisabeth Morrow who died in 1934; in North Haven, Me. It was in his family's home that Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh took refuge after their flight from...
...Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it. He buckled doggedly down to work with pencil, paper, Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Deputy Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. This week he sent a special message to Congress asking for $1,500,000,000 to carry next year's relief burden, and acknowledging that his midwinter estimates of fiscal position would no longer hold up because income taxes and other revenue had fallen $604,000,000 under expectations. He now foresaw a deficit on June...
...none. "So many people have cars," he explained last week, "and they have gone so far and so fast that the whole business has been rather run into the ground." Eugene Gallatin's interest in art is older than his interest in automobiles as a sport. Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler were his first passions. He collected, studied, and finally wrote a sheaf of books on the elegant Jimmy, but gradually his taste grew more & more advanced, more & more abstract...