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Beginning next Monday at the Hollis Theatre is C. L. Anthony's romantic comedy, "Autumn Crocus" with Rollo Peters and Mabel Taliaferro in the starring roles...
...high bench in Bow Street Court last week Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sir Rollo Frederick Graham-Campbell fidgeted beneath his robes and wig. Royal Dukes, Archbishops and Dukes are the top dogs of the British peerage, and below Sir Rollo, quietly awaiting judgment as a prisoner, stood that jovial, ruddy sporting peer, His Grace the Duke of Atholl, lord of 200,000 Scottish acres, master of the only private army in Great Britain and a War hero who won by conspicuous bravery in action...
Dryly from his bench in Bow Street Court last week Sir Rollo said he had no doubt that the Duke of Atholl had planned to do from the beginning what he claimed to have done only after all tickets were sold and the heavenly ideas began to roll in. Sir Rollo pronounced the Duke guilty of violating Britain's 110-year-old-anti-lottery law, fined him ?25, ordered him to pay ?36/158 costs...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...
...founder of Detroit's Bonstelle Playhouse which in 1924 became the Detroit Civic Theatre, longtime manager of stock companies in Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto, Rochester (N. Y.), Northampton (Mass.) and Providence (R. I); of heart trouble; in Detroit. Stars she trained: Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, William Powell, Katherine Alexander. Rollo Peters, Earle Larrimore, Joan Lowell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Morgan, Ben Lyon. Kenneth McKenna, Melvyn Douglas, Jessie Royce Landis, Minor Watson...