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Schools. Last autumn, Riverdale Country School (Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.) found its enrollment decreased from 255 to 230. Last week Riverdale cut its fees, urged other preparatory schools to do so. Headmaster Frank Sutliss Hackett said that teachers' salaries at Riverdale had been cut 10%, operating costs reduced one-sixth. Next autumn boarding students will pay $150 less than at any time since 1917, day students $75 less...
Aboard on her maiden voyage last week was the Champlain's "Godmother," Mme Louis Germain-Martin, wife of the Finance Minister of France, also Norma Talmadge. her friend George Jessel and Tenor Charles Hackett. To meet the Champlain at Manhattan went Mayor of Quebec Lieut.-Colonel H. G. Lavigueur and a troupe of Canadian moppets, all claiming descent from 17th Century Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec and first governor of New France (now Canada...
Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy...
...Author, Within the memory of living men, 65-year-old George Ade was accounted one of the three brightest boys in Chicago (the others: Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon, Howard Hackett). From a reporter on Chicago's Record George Ade rose to the level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known...
...inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...