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...young composer, Lewis Dodd, lean and sharp as a falcon, is on hand when Florence Churchill, efficient dilettante, comes to drag her cousins off to school in England. Anticipating an interesting seduction, Dodd soon finds himself a successful, well-kept celebrity in England, married to Florence. Not till then does he wake up to Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...omit further unfair comparison of mediums, the play is powerful on its own plane. Of a moving generality it makes a convincing particular. Actor Glenn Anders as Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Hubert Booth Jr. 180 John Livermore Prescott 152 Henry Ware Jr. 141 John Henry Harwood 115 -- 795 *Elected ALBUM COMMITTEE *Ernest Francis Gamache 274 *Edward Hopkins Bailey 236 *Lewis Henderson Gordon 186 *Henry Russell Wood 168 *Isadore Zarakov 165 William Enos Soule 153 Howard Slade 2nd 144 Samuel Dodd Richards 134 Milton Henry Clifford 133 Archibald Carey Coolidge Jr. 123 Edward Baur 112 Lee Yates Ward 94 Kendall Foss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Pick Eight as Class Officers | 12/16/1926 | See Source »

...Malick Sarell Everett Gleason Jr. Alfred Henry Miller. Ellsworth Charles Haggerty Robert Allan Pinkerton Nathaniel Hamlen Geoffrey Platt Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. John Newbold Robinson Bayard Livingston Kilgour Jr. Madison Sayles Barrett Soudder FOR ALBUM COMMITTEE (Five to be Elected) Edward Hopkins Bailey Lewis Henderson Gordon Edward Baur Samuel Dodd Richards Milton Henry Clifford Howard Slade 2nd Archibald Carey Coolidge Jr William Enos Soule Kendall Foss Lee Yates Ward Ernest Francis Gamache Henry Russell Wood Isadore Zarakov

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES IN FINAL 1927 ELECTION TODAY | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

...Samuel Dodd Richards of St. Louis, Missouri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1927 NOMINATES FOR FOUR OFFICES | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

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