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Resigned. James Milliken Speers. 66, board chairman of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan linen merchants; from the presidency of that company; on the 50th anniversary of his arriving from Ireland and joining the firm. To succeed him was appointed William Charles McCutcheon...
Since Harvard is the main hunting ground for Boston debutante racketeers, an article appearing in the current number of The North American Review has a definite bearing on some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony...
Last week in Hoboken, N. J., their ''last seacoast of Bohemia," Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstarf Gribble revived The Black Crook. Next day not a newspaper blushed, no pulpit peeped. Nevertheless, Hoboken's Lyric Theatre had scarcely more than standing room, not, of course, because The Black Crook is shocking in 1929, but because it is "quaint.'' The only trouble with it is that it is entirely too quaint. In their efforts to be sure the audience understands just how funny it looks and sounds after all these years, the actors...
...that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad Milliken, lawyer-poet. Eventually the four leased it and dusted...
...summary follows: HARVARD DANVERS G. O. Clark, No. 1 No. 1, Milliken Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Holden, White F. A. Clark, back back, Newbegin, Cyrus...