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Tonight Lowell House will inaugurate its first high table at dinner, when the entire House will dine together. Associates of the House and Tutors, together with a number of invited guests whose names were not revealed, will be the guests of Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, master of Lowell House, at the high table at that time...
...shower in the bathroom which he shares with his roommate if the suite is double. He can dress besides an open fire in his study (though all the rooms are steam heated) and if the weather is stormy he can, by descending into the basement, walk to the dining hall from any room in the House without going out of doors. He may breakfast at a table by himself of choose table companions from men of three classes, with perhaps at tutor. His lectures, between 9 A. M. and 4 P. M., will be mostly up in the yard...
That Minister Munro ought to get on well with his easy-going tropical hosts is suggested by a story told on him in Washington. Invited to dinner at the White House, he and Mrs. Munro arrived 30 min. late, were advised by Chief Usher Ike Hoover to dine elsewhere. On another occasion, dilatory Dana Munro arrived late with a speech-of-state which he had prepared for the President to deliver...
...ways. ... In 1925 some friends wanted to take me to that monstrous display of bad taste . . . the International Exhibition of Decorative Art. They said to me, 'You'll see . . . that it is you who are responsible for all that architecture. . . .' Imagine Michael Angelo coming to dine with friends and being welcomed with the words, 'We have just ordered a very beautiful Renaissance sideboard inspired by your Moses.' Think of Michael Angelo's face. . . . Some try to turn Cubism into a kind of physical culture. ... I try to paint what I have found, not what...
...return to the S. S. Van Dine ghoulish extravaganzas William Powell, while easily surpassing his understudy, Basil Rathbone, who appeared as Philo Vance in the "Bishop Murder Case", gives a distinctly inferior performance to his first appearance as the modernist detective. His suavity is the direct cause of objection: ennui sits so heavily upon him that it finally spreads to the spectator and the latter at last doesn't give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits...