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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things she did was to move the millinery department down to the street floor, with the result that hat sales tripled. New departments were organized, floors remodeled, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia installed to run a photography studio. Last week at the president's desk in her walnut-paneled office Mrs. Odlum announced her slogan: "High class but not high hat." Last week Founder...
...PROUD AND THE MEEK-Jules Romains-Knopf ($2.50). Slowly but surely Jules Romains is building his skyscraper novel of modern Paris. Men of Good Will. Last week U. S. gazers saw the third floor finished. Though it is still too soon to judge the architecture of the building, critics had already divided in their previews: some called it superb, others jerry-built. Men-in-the-street, content merely to watch the structure go up, told themselves it was beginning to look more like the real thing. Readers of the first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims...
Letters written over a period of 25 years by Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry '77, nationally popular writer of the last generation, are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room on the top floor of Widener Library...
Featured in the picture is the new dance which according to reports is scheduled to sweep America, following in the steps of its illustrious sire, the Carloca. "The Continental" as it is danced by Mr. Astaire and Miss Rogers will probably not be seen on many dance floors, but the phrase "we kiss while we're dancing" should win many followers. Without the straining of muscles and gritting of teeth that is usually a characteristic of tap-dancers, Mr. Astaire whirls about the floor with apparently effortless grace. He also exhibits a surprisingly pleasing singing voice, which many people usually...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...