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...little dog for a walk." seizes the leash of Skene, the other Lindbergh Scottie, marches it proudly around the estate. Into the new beauty parlor she was opening on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Hocked the friends of Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy* for a housewarming. Tall, plump, blonde, Proprietress Christy was the famed illustrator's chief model for eight years before she became his second wife. Rumania's King Carol noticed Crown Prince Michael, 11 lording it over the public-school boys who share his work & play in the palace. Said King Carol: "There's one thing...
While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...
There is a long and not too honorable history behind Shepherd Hall. Purchased in 1918 from a boarding house proprietress, it has become the home of the Naval Science Department, and the enforced repository for twenty-five dropped Freshmen. A veritable fire-trap, a prey to the first strong wind that blows, the wooden edifice of Shepherd is in shameful contrast to a group of buildings which includes Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot Houses. The University has recognized these facts for years, yet has pursued only a patch-work policy, just effective enough to hush condemnation proceedings...
Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures...
From such blissful ruminations he traveled on to Vienna where he arrived ''too late." Frau Sacher, proprietress of the city's most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that the city was passee. Budapest, with its slightly Oriental flavor he liked better, though he was shocked, on going to hear the gypsy music, to hear "Donna e Mobile" instead. "It was not necessary to travel the far way from Pennsylvania to Hungary to learn that donne were mobile. They...