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...song score for the new musical gleams with the gilt-edged Porter signet. The author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...
...masterful article on Olivier's Hamlet with the Ashbourne portrait which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library. This has lately been revealed by X-ray and infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
...AMERICAN POEMS (184 pp.)-Edited by Selden Rodman-Penguin Signet...
...evening gathering held at the Signet Society; Clemens Heller 2G and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, addressed a group of faculty members, University administrative officials, and students about the history, achievements, and prospects of the Seminar...
...Sibley Webster, Jr. '23 will set something of a record in the hear future, when they receive postcards addressed to them 23 years ago. Two residents of Grays Hall found the cards yesterday, stuck in the wall behind a studding. The missives, one announcing an invitation meeting of the Signet Society, had seemingly fallen through a crack in the mail box, when originally deposited there on March 2 and October 3, 1923. Benevolent undergraduates will forward the cards to the rightful owners...