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Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, for 35 years a staff member of the Peabody Museum, was honored at a dinner on Saturday night at the Tavern Club of Boston by a group of about sixty colleagues and former students...
John James '34 (son of William James,) and Lawrence Morgan, A.M. '16 arrived in Boston yesterday from France, and were honored last night at a dinner at the Tavern Club. James and Morgan together with Horace W. Fuller '30 were called on "to take over jobs which involved special risks and initiative. They were always successful in carrying out these extremely dangerous missions...
...waxworks were shaken, and though Admiral Beatty lost the nose which survived Jutland, Hitler and Mussolini stared on uncrumbled. The slums whose names are nevertheless music to the Empire's poverty-stricken-Limehouse (after ancient limekilns), The Minories (pronounced minneries, after Nuns Minoresses), Elephant & Castle (after an old tavern) -were pulverized...
...alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when is there any difference between Heifetz playing a fiddle and the fiddler in a tavern? They're both musicians...
...this sequel to his old-time success "The Tavern", the author tells us that he is presenting an "American Melodramatic Satire". For a scant two hours or so, the Vagabond (Mr. Cohan, if you have not divined so already) directs in entertainingly unorthodox manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience...