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...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 you fellows must understand. If any of you let Michael hit you without giving him a good hiding, you can look for serious trouble with me." Few days later Prince Michael turned...
...Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened...
Golspie proves to be a not unmixed blessing. His roaring conceit disturbs the office and is incompatible with Dersingham's public-school rationale. When Golspie's handsome daughter Lena appears she shows also that conscience does not run in the family, for she amuses herself at the expense of the lowly but amorous Turgis. Unable to see the fun, one night Turgis nearly strangles her, to his own and the reader's great surprise. For that evening he wallows in the melancholy of a murderer, and afterwards in (hat of a jobless man. Solace comes to him, however...
Since the days not long ago when public-school music was limited to daily sing-song renderings of a morning hymn, tremendous strides have been taken in this branch of education. Now even remote little schools have their special music teachers, their glee clubs, orchestras, bands, unusual opportunities to hear concerts by professionals. To discuss these comparatively recent developments and to compare achievements, there met last week in Chicago some 7,400 music supervisors for the Second Biennial National Conference. Superintendent William. J. Bogan of the Chicago Public Schools spoke. So did Conference President Mabelle Glenn, music supervisor in Kansas...
...forced into a college mould, and detested the wire-pulling that would have been necessary in freshman year, to get in the "right college" for the last three years. For let no one imagine that all the sub-divided colleges will be equal in social attraction. Almost fatally the public-school men will gravitate to some, and the prep-school men to others: certain unfortunates will be wanted no where, unless they are segregated into colleges of their...