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Died. Sir John Harry Lee Fagge, 71; in Marshfield, Mass. An English-born younger son, he made a living mowing lawns, trimming hedges, repairing furniture in Pepperell, Mass., keeping his noble birth a secret until he succeeded to the bare-cupboard baronetcy of Fagge in 1930, sailed to claim his title, met, wooed and won the English-born widow of a wealthy U. S. manufacturer...
...Mother-Hubbard went to the cupboard...
When she got there the cupboard...
...concern: there is no money in this safe, only some papers of no value to any one. Please do not break open." Last week a thief broke into Hurson's store, grinned at the sign, cracked the safe, found it as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
With his Caesar a smash hit, Welles flung his laurel wreath into a cupboard, backed Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock-the sceneryless, music-quickened strike play which a scared WPA had dumped overboard the season before- and The Cradle rocked like mad. Then, having enough of boom and roar. Welles and the Mercury turned back to Elizabethan times for a bellylaugh, rigged up Thomas Dekker's bawdy, roistering The Shoemakers' Holiday. That was a success...