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...lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...Washington, Mrs. Charles Henry Sabin and her ladies convened at the fourth annual convention of the W. O. N. P. R. Said she: "It would be glorious to continue in the vein of ecstasy, but it would be premature. . . . Repealists now face perhaps the hardest engagement of our great fight...
SERGEANT SIR PETER-Edgar Wallace- Crime Club ($2). Money in the wrong cellar-and an automatic in the cut-out leaves of a book. An Edgar Wallace (believed to be his next-to-the-last) in the late author's characteristic vein...
...which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously her part in one of his nursery productions...