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Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
With his wife Flora, his stenographer daughter Ruth, Elias Disney has lived in Portland since 1921, owns several small apartment houses. "There's not much to do around them," he complained. "It's kind of nice to get a chance to do this grand jury work for a change...
ELMER DREW MERRILL: DOCTOR OF SCIENCE, of Cambridge, professor of Botany and administrator of Botanical Collections, and acting supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum, and the Atkins Institute of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba. "A botanist famed for his investigations of the flora of the Philippines, and an administrator marked by his effectiveness in many posts...
...museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...
...than just an animal story. Foxhunters might claim it, with some justice, as a sporting book, for it sings the glories of the chase. And Southerners could point with pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...