Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engaged. Margaret Morton Eustis of Washington, D. C., granddaughter of the late Levi Parsons Morton, Vice President of the U. S. under President Harrison; to David Edward Finley of York. S. C., Special Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; at Washington. Her aunt is the wife of Harry Frank Guggenheim, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
Cast as the heroine of Playwright Harris' coy flirtation with the Facts of Life is blond Margaret Sullavan, an authentic theatrical find. Her previous experience was with Princeton's McCarter Theatre and as understudy to the leading lady in a road company of Strictly Dishonorable. She has a mild Southern accent which she keeps from becoming unpleasant, does her best to be charming and ingenuous in her messy role. The novelist is played by Roger Pryor (Up Pops the Devil). He also lets fresh air into the play, prevents it from getting too blue around the edges...
Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...
...which it is expected that an important step in the growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening...
...setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...