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...wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Professional | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Society from the Senior class: Carl Oscar Emamiel Anderson, Prescott Niles Arnold, Dana Converse Backus, Thomas Senior Berry, Gordon Marsh Benedict, Melvin Irving Bernstein, Dwight Wesley Chapman, Jr., David Luther Dickson, Warren Fosket Fair, Stanley Turner Frame, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Allan Holske, John Denisor: Houghton, Judah Isaacs, Lester Snow King, Glenn Allen Millikan, Charles Platt Jr. John Robert Richardson, Robert Thornton Smith, Abraham Harold Swirske, Henry Franklin Williams and Charles Edward Wyzanski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 36 MEN ARE NAMED BY PHI BETA KAPPA | 11/16/1926 | See Source »

...bill to establish a "Summer White House" somewhere west of the Mississippi where the President can "breathe the air of the West," will be introduced by Representative Lester J. Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Love") Macfadden started the Daily Graphic, Mr. Cohen promoted the circulation, most successfully, for nearly two years. Then, without any of the usual short-story apprenticeship, he wrote this full length novel, which will be definitely important if it leads to further study of the Pardways, as now planned. Lester Cohen's father is Dr. Hymen

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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