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Sprig of a patrician Boston family whose wealth came from shipping and New England real estate, Eleonora Sears is a great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jef ferson. Her mother's father was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1892-93) Minister to France. Her father graduated from Harvard in 1875, is currently celebrated in Boston for his habit of taking a long constitutional around Back Bay every day, rain or shine. Frederick Richard Sears's daughter was a late-flowering hyacinth. Her appearance on a polo pony in men's riding breeches caused Boston women's clubs...
...Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady (Rosalind Russell) whom he loves, and her unpleasant husband (Alan Dinehart). Rosalind Russell, till a rookie Myrna Loy, and Raft, whose arrogance may be taken as an expression of his delight at not having to do a rumba
...between the importance of the U. S. Winter Olympic teams in 1928 and 1936 was due, not to protests against sending any Olympic team at all to Nazi Germany this year, but to the fact that since 1928 winter sports in the U. S. have ceased to be a patrician fad and have become instead a national pastime in a class with baseball, football and golf. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, U. S. speed skaters and bobsledders have more than a fair chance to repeat their victories of the 1932 winter games at Lake Placid. At hockey, fancy skating and skiing they...
Dead End (by Sidney Kingsley; Norman Bel Geddes, producer). In teeming Manhattan no expert statistician is needed to point out that the city's wealth is unequally divided. Crisscrossed everywhere by hairlines of social distinction, with frowsy tenements rubbing their rumps against the flanks of patrician apartment houses, the island's very real estate proclaims the class war. Dramatic implications of this scene must have occurred to many a playwright before they were seized upon by Sidney Kingsley, who, though he won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago with his Men in White, is a comparative newcomer...
...promptly became what it usually is, the climax of the summer's rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock...