Word: patricianism
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...Divine Moment (by Robert Hare Powel; produced by Peggy Fears Blumenthal). A patrician old spinster (Charlotte Granville) lies in her Newport, R. I. house where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these...
...brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings...
...committee; after long illness; in Manhattan. As U. S. bankers for the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger, Lee. Higginson sold some $150,000,000 of Kreuger securities. When Kreuger's suicide toppled the match empire, odium fell on Lee, Higginson for not having insisted on a U. S. audit. Patrician Banker Allen, with seven other directors of International Match Co. (Kreuger affiliate) were sued for negligence by the trustee in bankruptcy (TIME. Sept...
...Smart, patrician Pauline Morton Sabin, president of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, stated last July that she was in the fight for Repeal, and for temperance, "for the rest of her life." Last month her husband, Banker Charles Hamilton Sabin, died. Last week, Repeal became a certainty. Abruptly Mrs. Sabin announced that after Dec. 5, W. O. N. P. R. would disband...
...deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman...