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...wartime casualty among the plushier prep schools last week was Connecticut's Avon School, formerly Avon Old Farms. Its founder, solid, idiosyncratic Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, announced that it would close in June due to war conditions...
...Avon Old Farms' closing was only the most recent of a nearly continuous series of shocks to the school-which have kept the fashionable Farmington area of Connecticut agog as to what Mrs. Riddle and her unusual educational foundation might do or exhibit next. Theodate Pope Riddle was born in Salem, Ohio, the daughter of Alfred Atmore Pope, who had a fortune from Ohio iron mines. Her late husband, John Wallace Riddle, was U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina. Mrs. Riddle went down on the Lusitania, but came up again and collected $25,000 damages from Germany. She studied...
Marie Corelli, best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
...characterizations that really carried the show was Avon Long's portrayal of "Sportin' Life" peddler of happy dust extraordinary. With a voice almost as bad as Rochester's Long by his incredibly smooth and graceful dance-like capers turns his weakness into a triumphant asset in his rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily...
...imagination, after all, Shakespeare himself? This never-quite-laid ghost has haunted the battlements of English literature for 100 years. In many corners of the world, scholarly and unscholarly fanatics have spent the best part of their lives trying to prove that the son of a simple Stratford-on-Avon townsman was literature's greatest bluff...