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Well-beloved by two generations of boys who call him "Pa" is Dr. Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe. 75-year-old senior master at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. "Pa" Rolfe has been at the school 45 years, stepping up whenever needed as acting headmaster. He conducts chapel patriarchally. now teaches only English and Bible since Greek went out of style. The latter subject "Pa" Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe...
...London native cabaret girls are plentiful & cheap but, to pick up the imported U.S. article, choosy Englishmen must drop in at Mayfair's two new topnotch hotels, Dorchester House & Grosvenor House...
...Derby, remained Minister of Labor there was no interference with this strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been a general policy not to give working permits to foreign cabaret artists. Heretofore, we have been making...
Artist Clara Thomas became interested in art by looking into some of her husband's books on falconry. She has since painted office walls for Vincent Astor, Percy Rockefeller, Robert Rutherford McCormick, William Ziegler, the royal suite in London's Grosvenor House. Mother of two children, 17 and 12, a fair, blue-eyed little woman with an even smile, she looks scarcely 30 at 40. She likes stag parties at which she is the only woman, rides well, works hard, hunts...
Slogan of the convention was "We Choose Christ." This conviction caused 27-year-old Clyde Grubbs, Texas evangelist, to work his way on a caboose to Toledo, then hitchhike to Philadelphia. Jack Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading...