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Whatever the production, it will be staged in Brattle Hall and directed by Phyllis Stohl. To avoid repetition of the financial difficulties which the clubs encountered in "Mashenka," the next production must conform to a budget set up beforehand...
...classes are nondoctrinal "on the basis of the Bible" and are not demanded of Catholic and Jewish pupils whose parents object. Miles normally has a staff of some 15 men and 12 women teachers, all of whom must have honors degrees from a major university. Teachers' salaries conform to a national scale: for men, ?234 ($945) at start, ?480 ($1,939) maximum...
...Pictures in advertisements must conform to specified sizes: in newspapers and magazines a photograph or sketch of a dress, for example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...
After seven years of bucking Hollywood, intense, sensitive, beautiful Cinemactress Frances Farmer, who had never troubled to conform, was in a Los Angeles hospital last week. Given a six months suspended sentence for drunken driving last October, she was hailed to court again last week for getting into a drunken fracas, fought and kicked in the courtroom, was sent away for mental observation...
...rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...