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...John Forsdyke, Director of the British Museum, and Dr. Henry Thomas. Keeper of Printed Books in the Museum, visited the University yesterday to inspect the Harvard libraries and mecums...
...hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power of the Inquisition by trying to help a soldier whose mother had been arrested as a witch...
...confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...
...Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party for the cast. "They've got to have...
...biggest, most expensive, most marmoreal mansion of all was that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie...