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Lanning Prescott Budd, born in 1899, son of the European sales manager of Budd Gunmakers, lives on the Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower...
...play will start at 8:15 o'clock at Agassiz theater, Radcliffe. Otto Fielder '42 and Max Kraus '41 play the leading roles along with Miss Mabel Bouldry, Radcliffe '42, and Miss Mary Loughlin, Radcliffe...
...would accept, and be happy under, John Nance Garner as President.) Like his predecessors, Joe Pew is spending pots of money to bring about a G. O. P. victory. Unlike them, he spends his own money. Since 1934 Joe Pew and his immediate family (Brother John Howard, Sisters Mabel Pew Myrin and Mary Ethel Pew, Nephews Arthur E. Jr. and John G.) have anointed the Republican Party with an estimated $2,000,000. They expect to spend a great deal more before Nov. 5, and much of it outside Philadelphia, outside Pennsylvania. They do not regret one dollar...
...MABEL REEVES NORTON
When Phoneman Moore married Schoolteacher Mabel B. T. Clark (his second wife) six months ago, her first task was to unravel the mysteries of a front-hall panel studded with 28 pushbuttons, representing the overflow of her husband's mechanical talents and his preoccupation with the front door. Push one button and the door opens long enough to admit one visitor, then slams shut. Push it twice and a party of six can slip in without getting nipped. For crowds, a second button holds the door open indefinitely. For salesmen, truculent folk and enemies, a special button flips...