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...privilege of having them, children may go, unaccompanied by adults, up to 6 p. m. during school months, up to 7 p. m. in the summer. Ushers will direct them to a special section near the screen where children, unlike adults, prefer to sit. A qualified matron, licensed by the city, will see to it that they sit in their own section, behave properly while there...
...enough. By and by comes a matronly woman with a school of multi-colored children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week a small, pleasant-faced matron arose to receive a coveted honor. Together with Financier J. Pierpont Morgan (see p. 40), President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Clubs of America and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was given the National Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs...
...ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help of Mrs. Mortar (Catherine Doucet), and the fortunes of all three...
Concerned with the doings of a fairly typical Long Island house party, "The Lid's Off" marches along smoothly from the opening to closing chorus. Gasper G. Bacon, Jr. '37, cast in the role of Mrs. Hoopercliffe, ably brings to life a scatter-brained flighty matron, who manages in her own inimitable style the various baby benefits which run all through the play...