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BOSTON-Alfred M. Landon today expresed a personal belief that President Roosevelt would spurn a third term...
Joan Bennett, who spurned the stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order...
...formed the rival order of Woodmen of the World, which now has assets of $116,000,000, insurance in force of over $415,000,000. Modern Woodmen dwarfs its younger rival, however. Today it has 10,000 lodges in 46 States and four Canadian provinces. Only Missouri and Massachusetts spurn it. Membership has been as high as 1,182,756, is now about 500,000. More than $545,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries of deceased members, some $25,000,000 to living members. Insurance now in force is $631,802,225. About 90% of this has been switched...
...strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result of her midnight dash to the deathbed of the aforesaid Mr. Randolph...
However you may feel about it, "Freshmen, on the whole, spurn salads. But upperclassmen demand two salads a day, sometimes eating a large salad as a main course." It is surely all very interesting. Especially, if we may repeat, the perfectly truthful little statement that "Tomato juice is in great demand...