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When Elias Mayer, 52, of Chicago announced recently that he was going to retire from business, he gave as his reason his desire to die with his slippers on???not his shoes. In good health, he retired primarily to have some fun. But he also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
...suddenly appear under the united protection of the male vote. . . . You have seen a kitten waggling its tail with body atremble as it spies an imaginary mouse. It is proclaiming what it is going to do, when it grows up. So women voters with wrinkled brows are looking on???indignation mounting here, aspiration growing there and determination everywhere. Some day these voters may well be grown-up enough to pounce...
...naturally enough, is upset by this play, thinks she realizes, too late, her love for Pierre. Old Tony smiles gently. Says he: "Yes, dear, I know, I know. But the play must go on???always the play must...
Garrick Gaieties. Their elders and betters having gone away for the summer and abandoned the neo-Andalusian splendor of the Theatre Guild's playhouse, the Bright Young People who occasionally perform under the Guild's aegis when a production of doubtful dignity is to be put on???e.g., Red Rust (TIME, Dec. 30)?set out to disport themselves in a blithesome intimate revue. Guild subscription members flocked to see, recalling that it was the first Garrick Gaieties (1925) which uncovered Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Lorenz Hart ("Manhattan," "Sentimental Me," "April Fool"), Funnymen Romney Brent and Sterling Holloway...
...players crouch. There is a hush. The ball is snapped. It strikes waiting hands and bobs away. An alert Chocolate figure seizes it. There he goes?toward two white posts 94 yards away. On and on and on???40 yards, 60 yards, 80? touchdown! The Chocolate wins...