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...Long Days (by Davis Snow; produced by Tait-Buell) is one more of those gnarled, harsh dramas laid in a New England farmhouse. It concerns nine characters named Adams, who are not uncharacteristically lined up eight against one. The one is the matriarch of the family (Frances Starr), a fiercely dominating woman who puts the farm above its inhabitants, her ancestors ahead of her descendants. A hurried and lurid ending shows that she was not only intensely possessive but .pathologically possessed. Playwright Snow writes with great seriousness, but little power or skill. The Long Days has all the greyness...
They were excellent eyewitnesses, the men & women of that generation. Cannoneer Augustus Buell. himself a memorable witness of Gettysburg, pays a tribute to the reportorial ability of his fellow soldiers: "The men in our Army were in the habit of observing things . . . even in matters of military knowledge far beyond their sphere or control...
...office to all comers, stocked it like a gift shop with articles to pass out to voters. With the help of a "strong man" city charter pushed through by his supporters, Orville chopped the once-dominant city council down to size, hired & fired department heads at will (Dr. Marvin Buell, city health officer, attained fleeting fame by rendering a difficult triple-tongued selection on the ocarina while the mayor formally fired...
...former Massachusetts Governor Joseph Buell Ely, who represented Dumaine at the meeting (the old man's physician had told him to stay at home), this was "an embarrassing situation." But to dividend-hungry Stockholder Eugene Havas, the situation was far worse. "Nothing like this has happened since the days of Fisk and Gould!" he yelled. "This is shameful!" Havas wanted to know why the New Haven was paying $3,250,000 for the Boston & Providence bonds when the New Haven hadn't distributed a preferred dividend in two years. Ely explained that the New Haven needed the debentures...
Nominees for Director-at-Large are: Alan J. Lowry '13, Paul M. Mazur '14; Clement K. Stodder '17; James Coggeshall, Jr. '18; Cass Canfield '19; Arnold Horween '20; Charles C. Buell '23; William A. Coolidge '24; John H. Pratt '30 Charles F. Adams, Jr. '32; and Thomas W. Stephenson...