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Music Hath Charms (score by Rudolf Friml; Libretto by Rowland Leigh, George Rosener, John Shubert; Shuberts, producers). In operatic circles, Maria Jeritza has always been as famed for her business acumen as for her wit and charm. She had the good sense to duck out of Music Hath Charms before that mossy opus reached Manhattan...
...seven years as an educator. At Swarthmore he had won the esteem of President Frank Aydelotte by playing good football, making Phi Beta Kappa, winning a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1928 he was called back to Swarthmore as an assistant professor of English. In 1932 Yale's President James Rowland Angell persuaded him to go to New Haven. Within a year President Angell had made him chairman of the Board of Admissions, full professor, Master of Pierson College. Last week Rochester guessed that Messrs. Angell and Aydelotte had had much to do with the selection of their mutual protege...
...action." He has selected works from Harper's, the American Mercury. The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, North American Review, Forum and Century, Yale Review, Fortune, and the Current History Magazine. Among the authors represented are Theodore Drieser, Jane Adams, Christian Gauss, James Truslow Adams, Albert Jay Nock, James Rowland Angell, Robert Hillyer, Michael Pupin, Pearl S. Buck, Zona Gale, and John Erskine...
Columbia's James Waterhouse Angell, economist son of Yale's President James Rowland Angell: "The rising public debt and governmental inflation, which the process of pump-priming almost inevitably carries with it, are precisely the factors best calculated to destroy private confidence and to discourage private business recovery...
Died. Mrs. Cassie Rowland Milnes Hill, relict of President-Founder Percival S. Hill of the American Tobacco Co., mother of American Tobacco's President George Washington Hill; after short illness; in Manhattan...