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...effect of this glorification is unpredictable. Few princesses' heads have been turned in seeing themselves mimicked by plumply imposing contraltos. Peasant women seem noticeably unaffected by the rythmic nothings which curiously garbed damse's waft across the footlights. But in the case of the dine and-dance, belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts...
...stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more strongly than barrels of saints' rings and martyrs' knuckles...
...annual drive for funds by the Phillips Brooks House Association will officially begin tonight at 6.15 when the collectors will dine at the Phillips Brooks House. The intensive campaign will continue until Friday when it is hoped the quota of $4000 for the college and $1000 for the graduate schools will be completed...
...Lawrence, father of George Washington. Mr. Hughes issued a formal statement of appreciation: "An abiding memory of venerable institutions . . . inexhaustible kindness . . . new appreciation. . . ." He then, with others, entrained for France. At Paris, Messieurs Poincare, Millerand, Doumergue shook the U. S. hands. From the Belgian Capital came an invitation to dine with the Sovereigns...
...decrees for their accomplishment. Finally at 7 o'clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned in a mellower frame of mind...