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...Oldster Pauline Frederick as Empress Elizabeth and Oldster Dudley Digges as Franz Joseph went full critical praise and a welcome back to the stage from the films. Henry Hull and Margo, the lovers at Mayerling, split honors with Playwright Anderson for an historical episode bursting with strength and bravery, so true that it should have happened even...
...period will put his signature and the date on the slips before he passes them on. He will also pay a 2% transaction tax into the Townsend Test Fund at the local bank. Thus, if the $200 travels through 50 transactions during the 30-day period, a penurious oldster will have been provided with $200 worth of goods and services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting...
...knoll overlooking Springfield, Mass., one day last week gathered seven Episcopal bishops, their clergy and many a rich and cultivated worshiper. The grey-haired, 86-year-old retired Bishop of Massachusetts mounted the pulpit, preached on "The Quickening of the Spirit." Almost abruptly terminating his sermon, the oldster fixed his gaze upon a tall, younger man sitting at a table in the centre aisle. "My son!" said he, "my father used to say to me again and again, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' I have repeated these words for myself...
...fall) was given the full distinction which the role offered by Sardis Lawrence, who brought out all the irony, all the spirit, and all the easy-going-live-and-let-live character of Madge's aged and indigent composer-father: the top performance of the evening. Another competent oldster was Frank Thomas as T. Rogers Holt--up from below, the "survival of the unfittest," as father Graham puts...
...Chapman tramped into Maine's woods each winter to oversee the selection and cutting of fine trees even in his 80's. In those days Maine supplied about half the trees sold in the U. S. Eastern dealers now get their best trees from Nova Scotia. After Oldster Chapman's death five years ago the moth blight settled funereally on Maine's balsam forests, nearly ruined that State's Christmas tree production...