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Alma Rubens, TIME, Feb. 10, p. 71, "made a redebut at a Hollywood night club." It's not lair to Alma. She appeared in a sketch at the monthly offering of the Writers' Club, of Hollywood, of which Rupert Hughes is, or was last year, president. That was her redebut. And the Writers' Club of Hollywood is no more a night club than is the home of the Century Association of New York. Except upon the occasion of its monthly stage entertainments its nights are dull and dreary. Please put our Alma right with your readers...
...example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which...
Thomas Schofield Handforth of Tacoma, Wash., and George Overbury ("Pop") Hart of Coytesville, N. J., and many other places, have the greatest wanderlust of all. Handforth's delight is to sketch shepherds in Arabia and scenes in Tunis; Hart's to watch and sketch cockfights, mandolin players in Mexico and the West Indies, veiled women in Morocco...
...driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander, to conquer the East. "From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream red and live grey, alas! The red dream alone is my passion. I have not beard enough to be an historian...
...fiscal sketch of precisely how the Hotel Biltmore makes its money...