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Jenny Wren (Karen Morley) is a loose lady who, at a house party which she has caused to be given in her honor, blackmails four of her previous admirers for $500,000. When she is found dead, with a feathered dart in the back of her neck, it seems at first quite easy to guess who did it. Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister...
...TIME referred to Penn's needs which President Gates, upon taking office, set out to supply with a $20.000.000 endowment drive. TIME also had in mind that Penn. like Columbia, has lost through polyglot expansion the distinction it once shared among Eastern colleges with Harvard, Princeton. Yale.-ED. Morley & Hoover Sirs: Better, better and better gets "The March of Time." Last night's conversation between President Hoover and Christopher Morley was your highest high point for verisimilitude. For four years as telephone operator at the Saturday Review I heard Mr. Morley's voice almost every...
...Last spring President Hoover asked Crooner Rudy Vallée for a "good song." Last month Poet Christopher Morley revealed that what the President thought the country needed was a "great poem." Last week President Hoover had sent greetings to oldtime Funnymen Weber & Fields on their Golden Jubilee, telling them that what the country needed was "a resoundingly good new joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south...
Amid the aroma of cigar smoke President Hoover was talking to big, burly Christopher Morley, poet and writer, in the Lincoln Study. Inquisitive about the President's reading habits Mr. Morley had been invited as an overnight White House guest. Last week's Saturday Review of Literature published his White House findings...
Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem...