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...cast is an interesting cross-section of the upper crust of Los Angeles' South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...
...hard frozen crust (having melted and refrozen) Ostvye, "Skaresmoring...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...
...book begins with Joseph nervously putting last touches on the Wotton Vanborough exhibit. With this scene as its casual centre it launches into a circling recital of upper-crust extravagances and lower-class problems, mixed, its methodical madness suggesting nothing so much as a cross between Evelyn Waugh and Marcel Proust. Proust and Waugh have at bottom much the same chillingly precise appreciation of high-flown decadence, and the combination of their two techniques here serves the author very well. Waugh-ish are the incidental plot and background, which largely describe the scurryings from London to Paris to the Lido...
...public geology field trip, to study the changes in rocks resulting from the movements of the earth's crust or from eruptive activity, will be conducted in Arlington tomorrow afternoon by Laurence LaForge, research associate in Geology...