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...String Quartet gave a concert in Manhattan last week and set out for the Pacific Coast where for two months it will be sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. most generous of chamber music patrons. The Londoners play bridge on the train when they can find a fourth; long John Pennington (first violinist) refuses to play. Because constant rehearsing and traveling force them to see so much of one another they try to stay at different hotels...
...House lore, there is somewhat more than spirit. The present President of the United States is said to have lived in Westmorly during part of his undergraduate stay. Ann Pennington is reputed to have been entertained in the swimming pool with many of her beautifully-limbed compatriots, and the various versions of this rumor are both exciting and legion. Then too there is the good-will bestowed upon the House by the no longer existing Adams House of Boston, a hostel long famous for its good cheer, the deed for which is in the House archives. Besides these more...
...band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
...mother's picture on the back of a canvas on which he had started the head of a young girl. Any appearance of sentimentality revolted the little dandy. When the picture was first exhibited he insisted that the title be merely "Arrangement in Gray and Black." To Harper Pennington, a friend who was enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother...
...immediately apparent that Walter Damrosch's onetime son-in-law, Architect Pleasants Pennington, raises pigeons. A bamboo aviary of them (built in spare time by Architect Mogens Tvede), surrounded by flowering plants, occupied the centre of the first of two exhibition rooms...