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...drawled atmosphere-setting about the propriety of mentioning a lady's name in a barroom, audiences knew that the girl to be reckoned with would be high-stepping Julie Marsden (Bette Davis), who had turned down a horse-&-hounds aristocrat named Buck Cantrell (George Brent) for one Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda...
That Pres Dillard is in trade (banking) is bad enough, but that he neglects his lady for business is worse. To chastise Pres, Julie wears red to the Mardi Gras' Olympus Ball, where unmarried girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie...
Herbert N. Dillard 3G, Julian Hawes 1G, Wilson D. Michell 1G, William T. Pecora 2d, 2G, Horace Winchell 1G, and Francis J. Whitfield 1G, received Austin fellowships...
...Borden '39, E. Bostwick '39, R. D. Brewer '39, E. J. Burke '36, G. N. Calkins 3L., E. D. Chase '39, I. H. Chase '39, D. S. Cheever '39, R. C. Cochrane '38, E. D. Congdon '38, F. S. Crawford 1G., D. M. Danner '39, H. N. Dillard...
Many a parlor entertainer has a stock of well-rehearsed piano tricks. Many a vaudeville performer can play Yankee Doodle and Old Black Joe simultaneously when his stooges in the audience suggest the titles. Alec Templeton impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription...