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...brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship. At a faculty meeting Professor Spingarn got himself in scholastic hot water by defending his friend Peck. Independently rich, Spingarn refused...
Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge...
MISS MARVEL?Esther Forbes?Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An agreeable little story of a New England girl who began a correspondence with an unknown Montana resident, was startled when he appeared in her home town...
...George Roberts and his dark-haired, sparkly-eyed wife. The Roberts' had the endorsement of the Oklahoma Military Academy and they were as great sticklers for strict ballroom decorum as "Madame" Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee, a bigger one in Tulsa...
Those who make the theatre a business instead of a political arena were not surprised that Parade's three distinct assets-a dancer, a designer, a comedian-were old hands from Broadway and not Union Square. Spry, mad-eyed little Esther Junger (Life Begins at 8:40), clad in bold costumes by Constance Ripley, appeals to other senses than that of social injustice when she performs wildly in the Cuban sugar cane. And shy little Jimmy Savo is most capable not when he is being beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis...