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...picked his way through the puddles and clambered into the front seat of an automobile. Careful British police whisked him to London where he arrived in high spirits, flashing his pink gums at the welcoming throngs. He was taken to Kingsley Hall Settlement House, whose fluttering proprietress, a Miss Muriel Lester, had been eagerly awaiting him for weeks (TIME, July 13). Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the Misses Frances Perry of Topeka, Kan., Mildred Osterhaut of Vancouver, B. C. and Camille Solomon of No. 552 West 150th...
...hear the little man in his first radio broadcast last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...
Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
...from New York City, but from Chicago. She was "Doris Arden" of the Chicago Times (a tabloid), who went to 262 movies, guessed right 183 times, wrong 73 times, made the winning percentage of 69.8%. Last year Miss Arden happened to be two women: Eleanor Keen and Muriel Vernon whom she succeeded in October. Miss Keen has a Ph.D. from Columbia, never saw more than three films a year before she got her job. Best record among her 16 Manhattan and Chicago colleagues, only five of whom are men, was made by William Boehnel of the New York World-Telegram...
...comedy in three acts by Viva Tatterstall and Sidney Toler, now playing at the Wilbur, with the following cast: Edgar Smith Richard Taber Nancy Smith Edna Hibbard Tillie Muriel Owen Mr. Peabody Bennett R. Finn Louella McKenzie Ivy Merton Maude Mooney Henriette Farley Oscar Mooney Lloyd Nolan Charlie McKenzie James Spottswood...