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...First Voyage of Columbus", Professor Usher. Widener...
...First Voyage of Columbus," Professor Usher, Widener...
...crippled Philip Snowden who was excused, "kissed hands'" and received the small leather cases containing their seals of office from George V. There was no actual osculation. In spite of the fact that all of these gentlemen had been through this ceremony before, they were warned by a whispering usher in knee breeches merely to bow over the royal fingers...
After Tomorrow. The play which Producer John Golden has chosen to usher in this season sets out deliberately to make its audiences weep. If spectators are compelled to blubber at After Tomorrow they must realize that, like Alice's, their tears are not real tears. They are being hoodwinked by bald and brazen theatrical bathos...
...last week President Hoover arose from his luncheon in the White House and, instead of returning immediately to his office, went upstairs to his dressing room. There with the aid of Boris, his valet, he put on formal morning clothes. At 2:15 Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover knocked on his door. "The new Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square...