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...mostly spoke against cancelling another cent of the nine billions which Europe owes the U. S. in War Debts. Such potent voices as those of Senator Borah (Rep.) and Senator Glass (Dem.) were not heard last week. The Senate tabled and ignored a resolution by Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore (Dem.) demanding whether "the European Powers which are indebted to the United States and which received, as a result of the War, an allotment of Germany's colonial possessions would prefer to transfer such territory ... to the United States in payment ... in lieu of ... cash...
...into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing down the back stairs to beg a cup of coffee from Hertha, the German girl, before Ethel, who favors Postum and orange juice for the aged, can intervene...
Stokowski's outdoor concert was ostensibly a rehearsal for a John Philip Sousa memorial concert held next night in Convention Hall. With Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Bandmaster Arthur Pryor, who once played the trombone in Sousa's band, Stokowski led the 200 jobless through nine Sousa marches which have come to comprise the nation's street music...
...More Bananas. Directors of the $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. are: Samuel F. Pryor of Remington Arms Co.; lanky Vincent Astar; Frederick Baldwin Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co. and member of the executive committee of U. S. Industrial Alcohol; Percy Avery Rockefeller; Socialite Robert Walton Goelet of Newport; Henry Osborne Havemeyer, also a director of Chase, Kennecott, and International Match; George Herbert Walker, director of American International Corp. and Barnsdall Corp.; Francis Minot Weld, also on the board of Baldwin Locomotive and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; Guy Gary, a director of National City Bank...
...Princeton's McCarter Theatre and as understudy to the leading lady in a road company of Strictly Dishonorable. She has a mild Southern accent which she keeps from becoming unpleasant, does her best to be charming and ingenuous in her messy role. The novelist is played by Roger Pryor (Up Pops the Devil). He also lets fresh air into the play, prevents it from getting too blue around the edges...