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Including one of the sixteen perfect first editions of the folio of Shakespeare's Plays, the second most valuable English edition of Montaigne's Essays in the world, and rare quarto editions of Shakespeare's Plays, genuine and spurious, the fifteen-volume Shakespeare exhibit now displayed in the Widener Memorial Room is estimated to be worth over...
...minute pogrom of humorous jokes and music. C. J. Swan, president of the Boston Advertising Club, will be the master of ceremonies, and C. T. (Jerry) Smith, Jr., young Boston lawyer, will tell very many of his droll stories in his own way. Two trios and one quarto, all composed of ten Harvard undergraduates, will sing over...
...last appearance on the Boston stage, as his transcontinental trip this year is said to be a farewell tour of the country. Sir Philip will continue on his tour from Boston playing chiefly for school and college audiences. Last year he produced and acted in the rarely played first quarto edition of "Hamlet...
...lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed less than 150 lb., when chorus girls in the West were expected to "work the boxes" between numbers, when...
...Publisher Conde Nast who recently gave him an exclusive contract for written articles, reproduction rights to all photographs. Mr. Nast made Photographer Beaton a present of a new, expensive camera, "which he grudgingly uses, still clinging to his Kodak whenever possible. Lately Cecil Beaton published an elegant pink-&-white quarto entitled The Book of Beauty, reproducing many of his more successful portraits of British and U. S. beauties, accompanied by brittle little pen-&-ink sketches and paragraphs. The Beaton method apparently is to make a highly nattering photograph of a lovely lady in an exotic attitude: lying on her back...