Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp rolls, a dainty pat of butter, and good coffee sending up a delicious aroma, etc., etc., etc. . . . constitute a breakfast that...
...commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal of the boy was not always sucessful. Mr. Charlton as Doctor Garret is too repressed he finds it so easy to look grim and sad that he frequently overdoes it. In "The End of the Bridge", the Boston Stock Company has got hold of a very difficult, though interesting, piece. All in all, they acquit themselves creditably, if no more...
Therein lies the difficulty. The field is exceedingly lucrative for a clever "faker". It is necessary only to find in some garret a respectable painting; sufficiently powdered with dust and old-looking, tell the world about it, and the hoax is sure to find a buyer. The work may not succeed in the distinction of being called a Titian or a Rembrandt for long, but if advertised properly is sure to fool someone who knows nothing about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story...
Some of the graduate departments are badly crowded. The Business School in particular has been holding its classes in cellar and garret, and has had to limit its enrollment because it simply could not find space enough in which to teach all the men who were qualified to enter the School. A Business School building, or group of buildings, would not be a luxury; it is, or will soon be, a necessity...
...Yard Dash.--T, Campbell, J. B. Carrington, P. F. Cooper, T. C. Coxe J. D. Garret, T. P. Heffelfinger, F. W. Hilles, T. J. O'Brien, R. G. Page, H. S. Reed, C. H. Roddy, J. Stewart, J. W. Sweetser, G. Thornton, C. S. Webb...