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...GARDEN DICTIONARY-edited by Norman Taylor - Houghton Mifflin ($16.25). In the 900 pages of this handbook the winter-emerging gardener will find the answers to all his vernal questions. Beautifully illustrated, carefully indexed...
...with the greatest of pleasure that this column announces, in a dither of vernal gaiety that Mr. Dwight Wiman has brought to the Shubert Theatre one of the very best musical comedies in many a pasteboard moon. It's called "On Your Toes" and if it falls to hang the S. T. O. talisman outside its New York queue, George Joan Nathan is Pollyanna's brother...
...when Wordsworth used to make his young heart leap up almost as effusively as the well-known rainbow in the sky seems to have affected the poet himself. There was the romanticism in the poet's pep talks which many a time sent the credulous Vagabond scampering into the vernal woods seeking that all-instructive impulse and the rather abstruse wisdom of the woodland linnet. Though the Vagabond returned from these escapades usually not a whit wiser, still he feels the chase was worth the leather; even if today he does think differently...
Last week the vernal urge of U.S. citizens to get together and discuss their trade problems was manifest in scores of powwows up & down the land. In Washington the Oyster Growers & Dealers Association of North America puzzled over the decline in oyster eating: U.S. oyster consumption has dropped in 25 years from 230,000,000 lb. annually to 60,000,000 lb. In St. Louis members of the Associated Stock Exchanges heard the first public speech of Charles R. Gay, new president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Gay pleaded for a better understanding of his institution...
Lowell House will indulge in its vernal dancing party on May 10 to the tunes of Larry Funk and his band of a Thousand Melodies. Always in search of piquancy, the Lowell Committee announces that this will be a "Comics Carnival," everyone being urged to appear in the guise of his favorite funny-paper character...