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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederick Sargeant, long with the "Old Vic" Theatre in London, is a former partner of Otis Skinner and the late Sir Herbert Tree. Christopher Gasson, son of the great English actress Sybil Thorndike, and Russell Thorndike, her brother, are again with the company...
...also on hand: venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered President Garfield's casket after his assassination...
...ALMOND TREE-Grace Zaring Stone-Bobbs-Merrttl ($2.50).* When middle-aged but still lovely Leda, newly widowed & impoverished, brought her only daughter Marise back to the U. S. to try to live economically, she thought she had nothing to look forward to. Her formidable spinster sister, a little-seen portent in Washington society, took them in with unenthusiastic, sisterly hospitality. Marise was 16, knew nothing about her native country, was pleasingly thrilled when she got a job in an interior decorator's office. Leda made no move to look up old friends; sat in the house...
...Almond Tree is the November choice of the Book League...
...Airport for his 73Oth consecutive daily flight, a two-year record of flying in all kinds of weather. Sometimes his would be the only plane to leave the ground, so thick was the rain, snow or fog. Although critics might liken his routine to year-round-swimming or marathon tree-sitting, Dr. Brock is not publicity-hungry. He is smart enough to know that his Specialty Optical Co. does not suffer from his own conspicuousness (he was recently received by President Hoover) but he is personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial tour to every State capital...