Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maturer years were not without event. On one occasion, impressed with the success of Cecil Sharp and others in collecting folk songs and music in the fastnesses of Kentucky, the Carolinas and Tennessee, he set out in a buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...
RARELY does a popular author prove so successful in handling his material as does Cecil Roberts in his latest, "Bargain Basement." It should be hastily indicated, too, that that bargain basement is an English, not an American one. Lady Elizabeth Belton goes to work when the family fortunes are reduced, masquerading as a commoner. As one expected, she loves a shop assistant. Tragedy hovers for a moment when her identity is discovered, but formulas win out, and a convenient discovery concerning the boy's parentage saves...
Married. Zoe Akins, 45, playwright (The Greeks Had a Word For It; Daddy's Gone A-Hunting); and Capt. Hugh Cecil Levinge Rumbold, 48, theatrical designer, half brother of British Ambassador to Germany Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold; in Pasadena...
Those who have been retained are: Albert Allen '33, D. J. Boorstin '34, P. H. Cohen '32, A. J. DeVoto '33, D. B. Edmonston '32, A. L. Gordon '34, M. A. Hoffman '34, I. C. Lebenson '34, A. P. Levack '32, M. J. Litwack '34, M. F. Lowenstein '32, Cecil Lubell '33, H. E. Magnuson '34, T. I. Moran '32, H. D. Patterson '34, S. M. Peyser '34, A. E. Phillips '34, Leo Srole '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, and J. C. Willis...
...onetime don (classics, philosophy) at Brasenose College, Francis James Wylie was, from 1903 until he retired last summer, resident host to all the Rhodes Scholars, including the 32 arriving annually from the U. S. Never acquainted with Cecil Rhodes, he was key man in the Trust, was knighted in 1929 for his work. He was a guide to all Rhodes men, a banker to those temporarily indigent. U. S.-born Lady Wylie (Kathleen Kelly) presided at tea-table, had each & every one to dinner once a year. At 66 Sir Francis is ruddy, a horseman and golfer, a "jolly good...