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Harvard's youngest Freshman during the years since 1929 was a member of the Class of 1937, who entered college at the tender age of 14 years, four months, but this figure was counteracted by a man in the Class of 1935 who was 33 years, four months...
...self-taught musician, having first picked up the rudiments as an apprentice in a music shop in his home town, Circleville, Ohio. His four brothers all attended college, but the music bug took hold of Ted at an early age, and he began his vaudeville career at the tender age of nine. Incidentally, the movie in which he played recently and which supposedly represented the story of his life, was classed by him as "ordinary movie hokum...
...confessed she knew nothing about typing, wanted a part in his play. The part was insignificant but one day his assistant heard her singing in her dressing-room, suggested a cabaret. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" was a simple, fragile tune but the Boyer version was so expertly tender that she became the talk of the town, the chief attraction to many a wealthy tourist who bought drink after drink and fancied that she was singing for him alone...
...Beyond Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised as to read it, it may annoy them, but only temporarily...
...character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly...