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...Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely...
Suing for Divorce. Robert Emmet Sherwood, playwright; from Mary Brandon Sherwood; in Reno. Grounds: "the usual thing...
...President Conant's first outside appointment to a full professorship, Alfred Sherwood Romer, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, has been elected professor of Biology. It was also announced at the same time that John Hasbrouck Van Vieck of the University of Wisconsin will become associate professor of Mathematics and Physics. Both appointments will become effective September...
...watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news of the current Civil War, a grudging eight...
During the morning session, Sherwood Eddy will speak, and at 11 o'clock the conference will break up into discussion groups. After luncheon, Dr. Hugh Vernon White, of the Congregational Board, will head discussion...