Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert B. Nichols '41, Amory Parker '41, and Quentin Roosevelt '41 have been elected to the Advocate's literary board, it was announced yesterday...
...Viking ($3). A 1,056-page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...
...advocate anything at all, he had the chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
...usual, the stage show has its ups and downs. Frank Parker sings pleasantly enough, but finds himself hampered by the refusal of the amplifying system to register his high notes. Sue Ryan in a droll burlesque of a night-club show also comes out the worse for her fight with the amplifier. Shaw and Lee supply some inane pantomime which a matinee audience seemed to appreciate. The chief punch of the show is provided by the Kimris an amazing acrobatic team who perform their stunts while circling high above the stage in a miniature airplane...
...Judicial bench serving last night included: John J. Parker, Circuit Judge for the Fourth Court, Edwin L. Page, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and Clarence G. Washburn, Judge of Court of Appeals of Ohio...