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When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall...
...reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
...harp plinks of "Just a Song at Twilight," 40 loyal crusaders trooped into a festive Manhattan dining room, burst out: "Happy birthday, dear doctor, happy birthday to you." Beaming across his dinner table on his 80th birthday was silvery, bright-eyed Dr. Charles Giffen Pease, founder-president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League. Bristling enemy of coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolates, meats, drugs, medicines and vaccination. All through the vegetarian banquet which followed, the 40 guests talked of Dr. Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice...
...gossip writers pigeonholed information to use in case the tests turned out as well as Warner Brothers hoped: Josephine Hutchinson, 25, is divorced from a grandson of Inventor Graham Bell. She weighs 103, lives in Manhattan, likes riding, won a scholarship in an acting school at 16, plays the harp. Her next cinema jobs will be in Max Reinhardt's Midsummer Night's Dream and The Right to Live, with George Brent. The picture selected for Josephine Hutchinson's début is a pleasant little comedy with incidental music. It supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner...
...years as a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, Representative James V. McClintic, senior member of the Oklahoma Delegation, used to harp on the shortcomings of the U. S. fleet. Land-locked Oklahoma tired of his harpings long before he was transferred to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week he was defeated for renomination by a Cordell lawyer named Sam Massingale...