Word: pelham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
Candle-Light. The chronicles of taste in the modern theatre contain the names of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received...
Died. James Elliott, 49, of Pelham, N. Y., president of Underwood & Underwood, famed photographers; at Poland Springs...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, G. H. Chase '96, Professors J. L. Coolidge '95, and C. N. Greenough '98, Philip P. Chase '99, Dean of the Summer School, and Guy Holliday '89, Secretary of the Law School, are among those members going from the University. Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, member of the Harvard Corporation, Eliot Wadsworth '98, President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, will also be among those Boston members in attendance. William Tudor Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine, and an Alumni Marshal at the Harvard...
Elected. Lewis H. Brown, 35, of Pelham, N. Y., assistant to the president of Johns-Manville Corp.; to be president, succeeding the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles...