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Riverdale is as authentic an example of U.S. suburbia as diagonal parking and the 7:53. It reclines on a well-groomed, rocky hillside where The Bronx meets Westchester, gives glimpses of itself to commuters motoring by on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan...
TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...
...Playgoer doesn't know yet whether Miss Harding's fruity lines are intended as a satire on Bloomsbury romanticism, or whether the authoress thought she was writing some pretty telling stuff. He is inclined to give Suburbia the benefit of the doubt. It must be a Message...
...second offering of the University Theater is an answer to the statement that writers cannot turn out two or three hundred scenarios for the movies each year and make them all worth while. "The Night of June 13" is a "Grand Hotel" of Suburbia; it contains nothing original, nothing very startling, no first class stars, and yet it is carried along by good acting and intelligent directing so that it is entertaining...
...there is anything to denote the stretch of suburbia called Merion as an important adjunct of Philadelphia, it is a 12-acre park, full of rare trees, graveled drives and smooth lawns, surrounding an edifice of buff French limestone where hangs the most notable U. S. collection of modern...