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What, then, are the effects of the house plan not upon the submerged and minuscule minority, but upon the normal undergraduate, upon his social habits, his method of physical existence, his extracurricular activities in the college itself, his eating and drinking, his relations with Mayfair and with Bohemia, his contacts and his clubs--in general, upon the things that really occupy every portion of his day and night save the begrudged or casual hour or two he may spend at lectures or in the library as insurance against the ever-present menace of examinations...
Since last month the ist Lady of Minto has been missing from her accustomed place in London's Mayfair district. Her place is in the art gallery of Victor Gilbert Lariston Garnet Murray-Kynnyn-mond Elliott, the present (5th) Earl of Minto. Done in the 18th century by the masterful brush of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the ist Lady of Minto's value as last estimated was anywhere up to $150,000. When the theft was discovered His Grace posted a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the thief, the return of his ancestress...
Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London...
...Mayfair. Broadway has recently been devoid of the sort of play which is chiefly concerned with elegant seductions in a belvedere. Those who still long for amorous speeches murmured above the polite creaking of a dress-shirt will find plenty of them in Laurence Eyre's comedy of the diplomatic corps. Chrystal Herne, a pleasant actress whose only disturbing habit is taking quick gulps of air when she must speak rapidly, impersonates the wife of a British plenipotentiary to Peru. He is more anxious to get an appointment to Rome than to retain his wife's love...
...Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...