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...play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested one line of Barrie's play, Little Mary, and received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parades* | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parades* | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Iolanthe" Sullivan Harvard Glee Club 2. My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice Saint-Sacus Abila Gruenwald Arabian Romance Polla Dartmouth Instrumental Club 3. Officer of the Day March Sacus Football Songs Harvard Dance Club 4. Men of Dartmouth Wellman Dartmouth Glee Club 5. Barbary Coast Orchestra of Dartmouth 6. Sylvia Speaker Goin to Shout Dartmouth Glee Club 7. Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandolin Club Gold Coast Orchestra of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs 8. Sir Fglamere English Folk Song Football Songs Harvard Glee Club 9. Fair Harvard Words by Gilman 1811 Harvard Glee Club Dartmouth Song Segn. Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND DARTMOUTH WILL UNITE IN CONCERT | 10/23/1925 | See Source »

Gregory Kelly, best recalled as Willie Baxter in Seventeen is his "Butter and Egg Man*," and a better performance could not be desired. Sylvia Field is the little stenographer with whom he falls in love, and Lucille Webster is the wisecracking elderly female who used to juggle Indian clubs in vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 5, 1925 | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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