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...like Charlie Ruggles and you can believe the Playgoer that there isn't a better comedian going if you don't have to see him too often) "Melody in Spring" will satisfy your fondest hopes. The little man is good, Lanny Ross sings superbly and Ann Sothern does a good job of listening. And if you don't think Charlie is funny, dressed as a pirate, you're impossible...
...Park at Miami. His feelings about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality and practicality. "I love horses," he says, "and I'll always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame was a track record at Louisville. "She was like a bit of Dresden china, a friendly, intelligent, perfectly mannered little lady...
...species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will be distributed, by mail and in theatres, in the next six months. Ten thousand ballots returned last week showed that: 1) educated cinemaddicts are fondest of animated cartoons, particularly Mickey Mouse; 2) cinemaddicts of lower mental rating prefer subdivisions of Drama, like "spiritual struggle," "social and sex problems," "society." Critics of the poll pointed out that: 1) typical cinemaddicts-whose opinions are most valuable-are the least likely to bother writing them on a ballot...
When an outsider thinks of Cleveland medicine he is likely to think first of George Washington Crile's Cleveland Clinic. That is Dr. Crile's private business. Native Clevelanders first think of Lake-side Hospital, fondest philanthropy of Cleveland's famed Samuel Mather. He has been its president 32 years. To it he j has diverted much wealth from his vast iron ore, coal and steel business (Pickands, Mather & Co.). Lakeside has long been the teaching hospital for Western Reserve University's school of medicine. The two institutions used to be downtown, a half-mile from Mr. Mather's mansion...
George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson is the story of two of fiction's fondest dreamers?Mimsey Seraskier and Peter. After an idyllic childhood with Mimsey in Paris, Peter is orphaned, goes to England to live with an uncle whose chief delights are wenching and lying about wenching. Peter leaves the uncle's house when life becomes intolerable, goes to London where he meets the beauteous Duchess of Towers?Mimsey grown up. Before they part "forever" she tells him how to "dream true," how to live in a world of fantasy...