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Caught In the Closet. Charles Laughton's love of the theater took a quarter-century to find its outlet. He was born in 1899 in the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, a resort town on the east coast of England. As the eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning Robert and Elizabeth Laughton, he was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But Charles showed his inclination early. He played endlessly with a toy puppet show until his brother Tom, who had built a guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came...
...physical leader of this new movement. Mainly through his efforts this association has been set up to organize and direct the alumni funds, and, he hopes, to increase them. Now, in this, Harvard's 100th year of rowing, the loyalty of all oarsmen, past and present, can find an outlet; and by means of this new psychological approach, the proverb "once a crewman, always a crewman" should bear financial fruit...
After Jerusalem fell to Saladin, the Hospitallers looked for a new outlet for their energies. They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their...
Felix's, the Mass. Avenue news store, which was the main local outlet for the paper, took it off the stands over two and a half years ago. The 25 sales made per week did not make up for the consistent criticism the proprietor received from patrons. Soon after it disappear from Felix's stand. The Capitol News Company, distributors of the paper the Boston area, stopped delivering Cambridge. "There just wasn't enough demand," said a Capitol spokesman...
...chance to display a light-comedy flair too often smothered by his material in the past. Actress Allyson's facile hands on the piano keyboard look surprisingly professional in a dubbed-in performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. And the film proves the perfect outlet for the little-girlishness that sometimes cloys in her grown-up roles...