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...last season, at a top price of $1. Balcony seats cost 50?. It is an attempt to lure moviegoers back to the theatre. The production is not cheap, the cast is headed by Dorothy Appleby and others from last season's success. It is a bargain at Si. Producer Sharp plans to present more and, it is to be hoped, better $1 plays...
...town courts are available for them at Ardsley Swimming & Racquet Club (Ardsley-on-Hudson) and at Nassau Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club on Long Island; in Chicago they play tournament matches at the Racquet Club and in Detroit the wives of members may use the Racquet Si Curling Club. At the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Club last week contestants from the East gathered for a national championship. Western players had for some reason which was not explained made no reply to the invitations...
...role was that of Sister Mary (Si May-e), a noble, impetuous Negress whose first husband leaves her for his side woman within a year of their marriage. After that she becomes notoriously promiscuous, tenderly raises a brood of illegitimate children. After 20 years her husband, whom she has never ceased to love, returns. Sister Mary scorns him. Then her firstborn, Unex (so named because he was unexpectedly born in the middle of a road), dies and in a loud wail, as the curtain falls, Sister Mary finally makes known her contrition. Ethel Barrymore Colt, as one of Sister Mary...
...Chinese Lowestoft porcelain was never made in Lowestoft, England. It is 18th & 19th Century Chinese porcelain turned principally on upper Kiang Si province, decorated in Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...
...French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...