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Rockabye (RKO) marks the début of Constance Bennett as a tragedienne. She is Judy Carrol, a successful actress with a gashouse past and a dipsomaniac mother. What she wants more than anything else is a baby. She tries to adopt one but the child's custodians decide Judy is incapable of providing it with a proper environment...
...with illustrations. So strong was this prejudice in the little girl that once when her sister was reading a volume devoid of such attractions she crawled off down a hole in search of a white rabbit she had seen. Thus was Alice sent into wonderland, and thus did Lewis Carrol scale the heights upon which Charles Dodgson has faltered...
Today Lewis Carrol would be 100 years old if he were now living. When he was a much younger man he took a little girl out in a row boat and told her all manner of absurd things which pleased the little girl tremendously, for no one had ever done such a thing before. She became so interested that her older friend wrote out all these stories for her, stories about white queens, and mad hatters and two odd little chumps called Tweedledee and Tweedledum who were in continual fisticuffs over a rattle. People grew suddenly incredibly tall or shrunk...
Elected to the staff of the Lampoon at a meeting last night were, on the Literary board, James Parton '34, of Rye, New York; and Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York. On the Art board Sidney Carrol '34, Brooklyn, New York, and John Wentworth Pierce '33, of Topsville. On the Business board Kip Natherby '34, New York, and Roger Haydick Weed '84, New York...
Last week from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...