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Biggest thing on the London horizon is a play (Staff Dance) by Actor Robert Morley (Oscar Wilde) in which Beatrice Lillie will play her first straight role...
Married. Louise Booth Morley, 23, daughter of Author Christopher Morley, London OW Idea girl; and Captain James A. Cochrane, 24, bemedaled (D.S.O., M.C.) Queens Own Cameron Highlander; in London...
This vivid tribute was paid last week by Christopher Morley to the nation's No. 1 printing and book designer, 73-year-old Bruce Rogers. The occasion was the appearance of one of the handsomest books ever published in the U.S.-a Rogers-designed, Rogers-authored textbook, Paragraphs on Printing (William E. Rudge's Sons; $10. Special Edition $25). It contains no less than 100 reproductions of Rogers' fastidious artistry -title pages, half titles, tailpieces, imprints, bookplates, pure type decorations. Notable are three inserts of pages from Rogers' magnificent Oxford Lectern Bible, finished...
...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
...through the oft-repeated Purcell "Nymphs and Shepherds," two choruses of Bela Bartok and the Schubert "Valses Nobles," the latter being one good reason why transcriptions should be made with discrimination. Radcliffe sang well, but has done better. When the Pierian followed this with an adequate performance of the Morley "Ayre in D Minor," approval was shown in most quarters...