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...create a great deal of interest. The music lover will find the House Glee Club more than welcome to receive him if he wants to sing; and he will soon discover that the collection of classical records in the library is the largest of any in the University. The dramatist can find a chance for emoting in the House play, the editorially minded may want to use the Chronicle to relieve his over-burdened brain, while the budding young scientist can feel free to propound whatever theories he wishes in the Lowell House Scientific Society meetings. Perhaps there will...
...salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with one of the Conning Tower's most famed play-on-words: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." Two average F. P. Aisms: "He (Walter Lippmann) appears to think that Roosevelt is putting the Court before the horse...
...Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English; F. O. Matthiessen, associate professor in English and History; Theodore Spencer associate professor in English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English; J. Tucker Murray '99, professor of English; Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking; Percy Mackaye, dramatist; and Dudley Pitts, dramatist and translator...
...tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (The School for Scandal) after an appendectomy; in Algeria. Legend is that for 400 years no first-born Sheridan son has lived to inherit or long enjoy his patrimony. Captain Wilfred Sheridan, Richard's father, was killed in France in 1915 six months before...
...general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...