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...gettin' tally-whack an' tandam where ye'll not like it." So admonished by her nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like a book. Fox hunting and trout fishing are more than half of the children's education. The rest they pick up almost unawares...
...England the children are expensively educated, and expected to be expensively wed. In their new sophistication they forget their wild Irish days. Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney...
...cinemactress ten years ago while passing through Hollywood to England for her schooling. In 1928, when she was 18, a small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil Dean thought she had the face of a fairy and the sophistication of a siren. When Charlie Chaplin was in England last spring, there were rumors that he and Cinemactress Maritza were engaged, that she would play the lead in his next picture. Instead, she accepted a Paramount contract, boarded the boat...
...Dollar will be president of the company as originally intended (business matters made him delay his election, William F. Humphrey, attorney for Herbert Fleishhacker temporarily took the post) the active management will be in the hands of Roosevelt Line officers: Philip Albright, Small Franklin, Kermit Roosevelt, John Merryman Franklin, Basil Harris, P. V. C. Mitchell, Andrew Curtein Fetterolf. From the I. M. M. board last week resigned John Pierpont Morgan and his partner Charles Steele, leaving the company without a Morgan representative for the first time since it was formed...
...Francisco last year Conductor Dobrowen gave tense, dynamic performances which made him more popular than quiet Basil Cameron. This year many of his concerts have been ragged because of hurried rehearsals. But San Francisco's music-wise feel that he will do well with his brief Manhattan engagement. New audiences inspire him. He will have an orchestra all trained for him, able to respond instantly to his quick, intuitive command. Conductor Dobrowen hates plodding but his intuitions are usually correct. He is a good fisherman, knows when to strike. Other musicians may have landed bigger muskellunge than...