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Architects drawings are not yet available, and the sketch on exhibition in the common room is not a final one. The building in Georgian style, will be of five full stories, and a sixth gabled story containing four large double suites. The sloping roofs will be surmounted by a tower resembling that of Eliot House, with a cupola supported by eight pillars. No bell or clock has been planned for the tower...
High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...
...have worked on Ben Hur, he toiled in coal mines, a cement mill, a silver mine, on a trade magazine; but kept his literary ambitions. Though a graduate of Lafayette he spent two earlier years at Princeton, where the Nassau Literary Magazine encouraged him by accepting a sonnet, a sketch. A year ago he left his editorial job, took his wife, two children and many rejected manuscripts to Georgetown, Conn., set himself to write his prize-winning Brothers in the West...
Your story interested me especially because I have had a slight acquaintance with him when I was employed in the Technology Department of the New York Public Library and have written a biographical sketch of him for Winston's Encyclopedia...
Broun, untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn...