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Professor John Berdan of the English Department and member of Saybrook College at Yale University, will speak to "Englishmen" and all members of Kirkland House interested in a "Literary Tale of a Tub," after the House Dinner at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow...
...acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
...were not fit to be seen. But when he began to go ahead he went fast. During his first year as an independent producer Sennett made 104 successful comedies. Soon Mack Sennett was a tycoon and had his heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor to be invited to share it. Keystone Comedies gave the U. S. three standard favorites: the chase (most Sennett pictures ended in one), the custard pie, the bathing beauty...
...first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment for public funds than to clear about...
...there to play host. Day before, complaining of a stomach ache, he had retired to his cabin. In the dining saloon paper hats bobbed merrily, poppers crackled amid the small extravagances of last-night wine. But Capt. Willmott lay dead, half in, half out of his cabin bath tub, dead, said the ship's doctor, of "acute indigestion and heart attack...