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Among the noted educators who will speak at the meeting are Lewis Perry, principal of the Phillips Exeter Academy; Bancroft Beatly, president of Simmons College, the Reverend Mr. Francis Talbot, editor of "America" William E. Blatz, director of the St. George's School for child Study, University of Toronto; the Reverend Mr. George Johnson, Professor of Education, Catholic University of America, and director of the Department of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Professor Arthur O. Norton, of Wellesley; Mary Ellen Chase, Head of the English Department of Smith College...
...requested a report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party referred...
ANNAPOLIS, MD., Oct. 15--A spirit of hilarious confidence permeates Bancroft Hall Dormitory of the U. S. Naval Academy tonight on the eve of the Harvard encounter. The Midshipmen expect their team to win, and they expressed this belief by an unending series of cheers all during evening's mess...
...year or two, he was sharing a house with fat Comedian Oliver Hardy whom he could lift with one hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines...
...Joan Bennett again prove that they are a good team. It is a highly-recommended picture. The action revolves about two star reporters trying to scoop each other. Paramount drags in the stock Hollywood conception of a newspaper: there is the hard-boiled city editor, played by George Bancroft and there is the constant occurrence of three alarm fires and murders attended by cynical, wise-cracking reporters. What distinguishes the movie is the sure, smart acting of Bennett and Grant...