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...many of them thread bare, which, if one may judge by the space allotted them, must have seemed to Melba excruciatingly funny. There is nothing about the practical Melba, the Melba who promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde...
Biographers of this type claim to have established a school of analytical biography. They devote themselves to the principle that if Cesar Borgin is thought a villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle...
...Robert Burns' life, John Drinkwater has tried to give not so much an historical as a spiritual biography in play form. Yet the story is not maltreated. The first scene shows him as a young plowman already cheerfully confronting woman and the unco godly in the persons of Nell and Holy Willie? laughing and singing...
Henry J. Allen, owner and publisher of the Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kansas; Brace Barton of Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, Advertising Agency of New York; Nell H. Borden, Assistant Professor of Advertising in the Harvard Business School; M. T. Copeland, Professor of Marketing in the Harvard Business School; Mac Martin, President of the Mac Martin Advertising Agency of Minneapolis; Malcolm Muir, Vice-President and Chairman of the Sales Board of the McGraw-Hill Company, Publishers, of New York; Stanley Resor, President of the J. Walter Thompson Company, Advertising Agency of New York; Tim Thritt, Advertising Manager of the American Multigraph Sales...
...Field '26, R. T. Flood '27, A. O. Fordyce. '28. C. A. Glover 2M., L. H. Gordon '27, Corliss Lamont H. C. T. F; B. Lyon '27, J. C. McDonald '26, A. Maine '29, H. L. Morgan '28, C. B. Munro, Instr., A. H. O'Nell '28. Wilson Palmer 5 E.S., W. C. Poletti H., Brooks Peiter 21., L. O. Pratt '26. W. T. Reid 27, S. H. Sturgis '27, F. P. Weymer '26, E. F. Wright...