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First half of Four Daughters is pure pastoral. Ann's romance with the composer Felix is getting along gayly when Mickey Borden (John Garfield) hitchhikes out from the city to orchestrate a piece of Felix's music. Ann has never met Mickey's type, dark, rude, bitter as stale tea. On the day she is meant to marry Felix she marries Mickey-a mistake, as cinemaddicts will spot immediately, for Felix is considerably more clean-cut. It takes a year's time and a melodramatic suicide to clear up the situation...
...there was talk of a National League pennant for the Reds (in third place and only four games behind the League-leading Giants). The club front office was stampeded for tickets. A sportswriter suggested that a statue of Vander Meer replace that of onetime U. S. President James A. Garfield in Garfield Square. In special session at Columbus, the Ohio Senate passed a resolution in "tribute to the newly crowned king of the baseball world...
Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while 50,000 Methodists knelt and partook of the Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened...
Fran Linz Beermann will be played by Miss Victor. Fran Bolland, Miss Garfield; Fran Lund, an elderly lady, Miss Constable; Effle, Beermann's daughter, Miss Chaffee; Ninon de Hauteville, a lady of leisure, Miss Dorothea Macmillan...
...gave one to the widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...