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Berkeley Square (Fox). Peter Standish, a young American living in a London house inherited from his British forbears, finds himself one afternoon in a situation dear to romantic playwrights: transported into the Past. In his drawing room he finds the Pettigrew family, comfortably sure that they are living in the 18th Century. It appears to them that he is an earlier Peter Standish, their Colonial cousin, back from the Revolution, engaged to marry Kate Pettigrew. It is a stormy day and the Pettigrews are a little astonished to find, when Peter Standish walks in, that his feet...
Presently the Pettigrews have further cause for astonishment. Peter Standish uses words like "cockeyed," "cigaret," "tank." He sits to Sir Joshua Reynolds, praises as his masterpiece a portrait not yet completed. He bewilders the Duchess of Devonshire with epigrams from Oscar Wilde, offends her by the historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself...
...Jesse Lasky-one of the few oldtime cinemagnates who have kept up with the times-did a first-rate job which began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew. Heather Angel's name is not a pseudonym. Daughter of an Oxford lecturer who was killed in the War, she attended a London dramatic school, took to the stage when its headmistress died. Her first real part...
Died. William Wallace Cook, 66, prolific fictionist, called "the man who deforested Canada" because of the avalanche of stories he fed into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry...
George Simon's music will be the feature of the Harvard Menorah Society's annual spring dance, to be held at the Myles Standish Hotel Saturday from 8.30 to 1 o'clock. Buffet supper will be served. The admission price is $1.50 a couple...