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...what may follow, the husband goes ahead with plans to take their two children on a visit to his parents in South Africa. His departure leaves the star alone to face her "Long Friends," hallucinatory specters that have attended her since her Louisiana childhood. She must also deal with Dongan Lowndes, an author who once wrote a critically acclaimed first novel and has since settled for prestigious journalistic assignments. He is on the set of The Awakening at the invitation of a nervous producer, who is eager for a culturally affirmative notice from a New York magazine. Walker...
...seems to have an entertainingly mean mouth. The old director proves a match for his son when it comes to exchanging insults: "Some people are brought up in poverty," he notes casually, "and they become cultivated people. Others grow up spoiled rotten with luxury and become guttersnipes." And when Dongan Lowndes, who has fallen heavily off the wagon, says that "the world can get on quite well" without a film version of his novel, Walker offers a laconic thought: "If we get into what the world can do without . . . God knows where...
...Dongan and McCarthy authored the year old bill outlawing the Communist Party in Massachusetts...
Last week Fermata obtained a new headmistress to succeed Mary M. Elder, Oxford graduate. Principal Tabor announced that next year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...
...organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools. He was a co-founder...