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...Late at night, in his room, he fills a page of his journal with a confused, but scathing, account of his first engagement . . . and falls to sleep where he is immediately chased through long, dark thickets by a Mrs. Mabel Frankincense Mehaffey, with a tray of martinis and lyrics. And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first but which seems to him now, after the ulcerous rigors of a lecturer's spring, a haven cozy as toast, cool as an icebox, and safe...
Cloying Limit. In Baltimore, Frederick Steeg, 24, got a divorce on grounds of desertion after he read the note left behind by his wife Mabel: "Dear Freddie . . . Don't be so good to your next wife...
...then all but forgot. In 1949 Mrs. Ford's cousin, Mrs. Frank S. Chmiel of Tucson, Ariz., began pestering publishers with the claim that "Cousin Frankie" was The Little Engine's creator. A firm that had always credited the story to an ex-teacher named Mabel Bragg looked back in its records to find that Miss Bragg had never claimed to be doing anything more than retelling another author's story. But publishers were reluctant to take sides; they continued to turn out authorless Little Engines. Months of literary detective work convinced Grosset & Dunlap that Mrs. Ford...
Donise Mangravite, in the role of Mabel, needs nothing but slightly stronger volume to make her perfect as a Gilbert and Sullivan heroine. With a clear, lilting voice she toys with the satiric words and music, never dragging, and always aware of her position as an actress. Elizabeth Kalkhuret, in the smaller role of Ruth, also is quite Savoyard, and gives, perhaps, the most consistent performance. Always on top of her role, she constantly strives for mannerisms characteristic of the middle-aged woman she plays...
...extinct institution of the Worcester era was Lyman House. Miss Mabel Lyman recognized the need for a place in which students could convalesce after leaving the infirmary, and donated a home that hundreds of men utilized over a period of 20 years. One of Lyman's House's main functions was to take care of mentally-disturbed students who needed the security of something more than dormitory life. It went out with...