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CHILDREN OF STRANGERS-Lyle Saxon -Houghton Mifflin...
Best parts of Children of Strangers are its portraits of minor plantation characters, its vivid local color. Its awkwardness is the result of Author Saxon's too often hiding Famie's story while he tells the more dramatic and less sentimental story of Cane River...
Last week it was revived again, in a scintillating, frolicsome production by Gilbert Miller. This time the cutting was done for the sake of compactness, the bowdierizaions being restricted to two or three of the Droadest Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. Libidinous high point of this show is not in the script at all; it is the direction of Lady Fidget's glance when a rakehell named Horner assures her that he is not, after all, a eunuch...
Married. Charles Saxon Farley Smith, son of South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith; and Laura M. Douglas, of Washington; by Rev. Zë Barney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate; in Washington...
...lived some of her early years in Ohio. At Washington University (St. Louis) she was a vigorous undergraduate, participating in sports and endless extra-curricular activities. Her first rejection slips came from the Saturday Evening Post, to which she tried to sell blank verse masques. She studied Anglo-Saxon at Columbia in 1911, worked as a waitress and shop girl to prepare her for novels you've seen on the screen. In 1935 she regained her figure by "taking no food with her meals...