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Women. Left-handed Kay Stammers, prettiest girl in the tournament, warmed up with Perry, beat one Gertrude Dwyer 6-0, 6-2, after winning eleven games in a row. For her first opponent, Helen Jacobs drew Mrs. H. Walter Blumenthal (the onetime Baroness Levi), fifth in U. S. women's ranking, had a hard time winning, 6-3, 6-4. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan played the best tennis of the women during the week, avalanching Helen Pederson with hard drives and volleys in two love sets...
...Clothier Jr., a Harvard sophomore, were the new titleholders. Those veterans among veterans, Frederick C. ("Pop") Baggs and Dr. William Rosenbaum, were finally ousted as champions by a pair of oldsters from Boston named Raymond B. Bidwell and Richard Bishop. Mixed doubles winners, after a polyglot final against Kay Stammers of England and Roderick Menzel of Czechoslovakia, were Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Boston and Enrique Maier of Spain. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Helen Jacobs won the women's doubles for the third time when they ran through Dorothy Andrus and Carolin Babcock, 6-4, 6-2. The most important...
...best short stories." Bearded Whit Burnett and his pleasant, bespectacled wife, Martha Foley, were correspondents for the New York Sun in Vienna when they ran off 75 copies of Story's first issue on a rented mimeograph machine. The contents were by themselves and friends, including Kay Boyle and Oliver Gossman. This smudged, amateur attempt set off a literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca. By 1933 Story had acquired such a patina of prestige that...
...than anywhere else, continued her good work by beating Phyllis Mudford King and when Helen Jacobs was through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with "Kay" Stammers whose fast left-handed drive has helped make her England's No. 3 player, who eats lump sugar during her matches and who, in the Kent Championship last June, won a love set from Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Arnold...
Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...