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...lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight thing called Forsaking All Others. As her present vehicle, Dark Victory won no critical nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, but audiences stood...
...Meerhead (Y), 7-5, 6-0 Ray and Davenport defeated Mansfield and Miles (Y) 6-4, 6-2; Robertson and Thackara defeated Delone and McMurty (Y) 6-1, 6-2: Ingalls and Freeburn defeated Hill and Ellis (Y) 4-6, 10-8, 6-4: Carlisle and Wardman (Y) defeated Bentley and Stork...
...overcoming their in town rivals, the Junior Varsity tennis team yesterday defeated the Boston University netmen 8-1. The summary: Wilkinson (H) defeated Holden (BU), 6-4, 6-4; Richmond (H) defeated Wight (BU), 4-6, 10-8, 6-8; Ingalls (H) defeated Smith (BU), 6-1, 6-4; Bentley (H) defeated Robart (BU), 8-6, 8-6; palmer (H) defeated Whitman (BU), 11-9, 6-4; Wye defeated and Wight (BU) defeated Wilkinson and Ingalls (H), 1-6, 6-4, 6-3; Palmer and Wye (H) defeated Ford and Whitman (BU), 6-3, 6-2; Franklin and Shapiro defeated...
From their grimy Midland factory towns, the late Enoch Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...