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...Mary Churchill, a glamor girl in anybody's country, espied her famed father, the First Sea Lord, trying to sneak in like a tired bulldog to an inconspicuous table. She promptly dragged him out to sit with her own café society group, including the orchidaceous Marquesa de Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
...many lorgnettes, but still fun: The Cocoanut Grove specializes in liquor and a floor show. Dancing isn't too marvelous. . . . The Brown Derby-about the same as the foregoing-a little less expensive. . . The Casa Manana nice setting with good music and food make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night...
...other, making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...
...January 1906, Maria Montessori opened her first Casa del Bambini in Rome. Twelve years earlier she had been hooted and jeered there as the first woman ever to receive the University of Rome's M.D. In the 33 years since she began practicing her revolutionary theories of child education on the tough sons & daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published...