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...fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows...
...assist him, Magician Boehme chose hulking Augustus Adolph ("Gus") Gennerich. onetime New York City detective who is now the President's bodyguard. "There are certain newspapers you need not read tomorrow," joked the President, "for I can tell you what they are going to say. They are going to say that Dr. Boehme is going to be appointed Secretary of the Treasury and Gus Gennerich head of the Federal Reserve Board...
...ushers will be William D. Sahier, Jr. '11, Herbert Jaques '11, Leverett Saltonstall '14, Charles C. Cabot '22, Dr. Augustus Thorndike, Jr. '17, George C. Lee, Jr. '21, Paul C. Cabot '21, Haven Parker '22, Dr. Henry H. Faxon '21, and Lawrence Terry...
Last week the staid old Church of England buzzed over the exciting possibility of its first Episcopal trial in 46 years.* Under fire from the Church's Anglo-Catholic wing was Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, a lean, wavy-haired divine whose fame as a low-churchman is exceeded in England only by that of lean little Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Lord Bishop of Birmingham. Before he became Bishop Dr. David was for twelve years headmaster of Rugby School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing...
There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...