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...fortnight ago Mrs. Bertrand Russell, author of The Right to be Happy, wife of the English philosopher, was refused the privilege of speaking before the "mixed" Student Forum at the University of Wisconsin on the subject:."Should Women Be Protected?" This subject involved companionate marriage, in which Mrs. Russell is a firm and earnest believer. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had been consulted by the Student Forum and had approved of barring of Mrs. Russell (TIME...
...unamusing situation in Madison, Wis. The soul-stirring subject of "companionate marriages" had been filling periodicals of the high-minded kind for which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin writes articles. Eager intellects of the Wisconsin Student Forum heard that the wife of famed Philosopher Bertrand Russell of England was coming to the U. S. to lecture in connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture on "Companionate Marriages" and looked forward to hearing a "vital and significant message"-until...
When President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin refused to allow Mrs. Bertrand Russell to speak at the student forum, he bared his side to the lances of what may be called the hard-riding school of American columnists. Not realizing that what was once merely nasty has now become the "illustrative anecdote", and that a polite interest in abnormality is expected in all those who have learned to take their Lindsey straight, President Frank barred Mrs. Russell. But since a touch of nature now makes the whole world read, where it once merely left the room, the conviction...
...Bertrand Russell is young and pretty, and "The Right to Be Happy" (Harper) proved her circumspect Neither she nor her husband could faint the morals of the undergraduate for, if anyone believes the smart columnist, there is no morality, there is only good taste...
Engaged. Gertrude Lawrence, famed British actress (Oh Kay; Chariot's Revue) to Bertrand L. Taylor Jr., Manhattan broker. The wedding will not take place for five months, when her British divorce decree from Francis Gordon Howley, London theatrical producer, becomes absolute...