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...children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons no holds are barred, and Harvard undergraduates rub elbows with students of Somerville High and with the families who have formed the Laffmovie habit. At these times the house is packed, and old-timers are reminded of the grand old vaudeville days...
...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...Biddle boy [Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia] is quite crazy, fresh and stupid, he has been boot-boxed once and threatened to be pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
Among the few rural paintings in Shahn's show was one of a solitary workman playing Pretty Girl Milking the Cow on a harmonica. It was far from pastoral. Whenever he can, he visits Manhattan "to see my reflection in the windows and rub elbows with the crowd. I take in all the newsreels too, and I think they influence my work quite a bit. Movies are really the master medium...
Chirp. A wristwatch with an alarm based on the principle used by male crickets to produce their chirping (they rub a saw-toothed edge on one front wing against the other) will soon be put on sale by Switzerland's Vulcain Watch Co. The name: Vulcain Cricket. The price...