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...Lake (by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald; produced by Jed Harris). In this sincere, intelligent but somewhat rambling play, there are two powerful scenes. One occurs when Stella Surrege (Katharine Hepburn), who has broken off a sticky love affair with a horsey neighbor (Geoffrey Wardwell) to marry a kindly, understanding War veteran with ?15,000 a year, discovers that she loves her new husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away...
...William Janney) of cunning little Leone Merrick (Mary Carlisle) tells her that she lacks sophistication, the consequences of his naïveté are fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial...
...Books by Members of the Harvard Faculty." At one end of the shelf were a couple of volumes by Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell; a little farther over was a book by Professor Felix Frankfurter. And in between was a beautifully bound, seven-volume edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer...
...Timmons, said to represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed to a struggle between Hearst...
...Good Earth), as a Chinese missionary, voluntarily, without a hearing on heresy charges brought by Professor J. Gresham Machen of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia). Resigned. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; as chairman of the National Economy League; in Manhattan. Reason: "pressure of personal affairs." Died. Air Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 54, commander-in-chief of Britain's Air Defense; after long suffering from what was thought to be a rare Eastern disease; in London. This month he was to have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died...