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Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
...unintelligible. Music, of course, is a universal language and a dictionary need not be thumbed when the hero is singing a love song. The admission prices, moreover, are usually so modest that you can afford to take a chance on being delighted or bored. But, after all, what Boston schoolgirl would be deterred by such practical considerations when there is a chance to hear Maurice Chevaller sing in his native French? Learning French or German in this way is almost too easy...
...shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers. The story which every lovelorn schoolgirl knows...
...Schoolgirl. Last year Carman Dee Barnes, 17, onetime student at Ward-Belmont School (Nashville, Tenn.) wrote a book "all by herself" called Schoolgirl. Therefrom this play has been made with the help of A. W. Pezet, who learned his playwriting at Professor George Pierce Baker's celebrated Harvard "47 Workshop." He is a onetime editorial adviser of Horace Liveright Inc., publishers of the Barnes book...
...Schoolgirl reveals an attitude toward love and morals among the very young in the South. Naomi Bradshaw (Joanna Roos) plans to elope with a boy, is thwarted by the same father who spoke the same epigrams in Coquette (Charles Waldron), is sent to boarding school. Miss Barnes advances the theory that if her heroine had not been sent off to school she would not have been seduced by her boy friend, later to be pardoned by her erring parents. The play is embarrassingly bad for the most part...