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Durante was lately seen on the stage (in The New Yorkers) by his father, Bar-thelomo Durante, 81, for the first time. Last week Critic Bide Dudley reported this after-the-show conversation between father...
Evolution is, at best, a prolonged process, so for the present, the college must bide its time and wait patiently for the final drastic step of removing the little green hat, white button and all, into the outmoded customs of the past. For a time we must content ourselves with admiration for Palaeopitus for their wisdom and foresight in granting to the youngest children of Eleazer Wheelock some vestige of the individuality of the New Hampshire hills...
...Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals (Manhattan) announced it would award its medal for persons "who have rendered distinguished service in protecting animals" to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd in recognition of his devotion to his terrier Igloo...
...gullet of the general public is of conservative dimensions, and has never yet been known to swallow reform in large and radical chunks. And for all Mr. Lindsey's cramming, it probably never will. There will unquestionably come a time when youth will be served, but Mr. Lindsey must bide his time...
Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...