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...Marcel Proust", Professor Morize, Sever...
Other speakers of the occasion will be Bishop Lawrence, Judge J. M. Morton '91 of the United States District Court, and Marcel Lichauce of the Philippine Islands...
...play was adapted by Benn W. Levy from the French of Marcel Pagnol. It is a preposterous fable about an incredible ass. But its exaggerations are those of a sophisticate who embellishes his careless satires with delicately hilarious details. Frank Morgan as M. Topaze apparently does not mind the fact that his role is basically unbelievable. He makes the figure by turns pitiful and ridiculous and frequently almost real. It is perhaps the most enjoyable of his many fine performances. Phoebe Foster is sleek and chiselled, a decorative element without which the play would not have been properly translated...
...convenience of several able U. S. players, all eager to be the champion of Canada. A player from South Orange, N. J.-Gilbert Hall-was the defending Canadian champion, but Fritz Mercur of Harrisburg, Pa., seventh in the U. S. ranking, put him out. Willard Crocker, Marcel Rainville, Charles Leslie, Brian Doherty, Canadians all, were in the quarterfinals. None of them got in the semifinals. The finals, as everyone expected, were between Mercur and George Lott. Mercur took the first set from Lott, who starts slowly. With a set apiece, dark-haired, straight-featured Mercur forced Lott into errors, returned...
...miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs of "-& Co." while in a hospital recovering from wounds. In 1925 he revised it; the English translation was made from this edition by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, translator of Marcel Proust's famed Remembrance of Things Past. Author Bloch lives in the country most of the year, likes to move about: on bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, canal barges, his own feet. Catholic in his tastes, he likes opposites: society & solitude, struggle & peace, traveling & tranquillity. Says he: "I dislike work...