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...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...
Postmistress Esther McCollum of Conyers, Ga., told that she had always understood she must pay 5% of her salary, or some $100 per annum, into the campaign chest of the Republicans responsible for her appointment...
...Committee points out that boxes of even numbers are on the Yard side of the Delta. Boxes are numbered, tables lettered. The box and table list of the guests of the Seniors is alphabetically as follows. Adams, Katherine 48 Alden, Esther. 25 Allen, Evelyn M. 40 Alter, Mrs. David B. 58 Baker, Lydia C. 16 Baker, Mary. Barron, Mrelyn. 22 Barnes, Lois. 32 Baron, Edith. 5 Baylies, Ruth. S Beach, Helen Louise. 26 Bean, Julta. B Altschuler, Lillian 6 Andelman, Evelyn. 9 Antine, Hazel. 14 Anderson, Mary. 40 Beardsley, Francis. 38 Beauchamp, Juanita. 27 Bemis, Aice. 11 Bernstein, Florence...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...
...While automobiling, she skidded, broke an arm. But she had it put in splints, kept a concert engagement in London. Her name: Esther Dale, minor U. S. soprano...