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LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
...Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little Lovebirds" in Sunny...
Musical?A M E R i c A ' s SWEETHEART (splendid, with Rodgers & Hart music); FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook & machines); GIRL CRAZY (splendid, with George & Ira Gershwin music); THE NEW YORKERS (splendid, with Cole Porter music); THREE'S A CROWD (Clifton Webb, Libby Holman, "Admiral" Fred Allen); You SAID IT (Funnyman Lou Holtz as a collegian...
...before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because he was afraid he would not be a success as Gogol's ill-smelling hospital commissioner...
...venture, Partners Hall and La Varre quarreled, and Partner Hall sought an injunction to restrain Partner La Varre from obtaining operating control. To protect himself, Hall had to go to the court of appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb from the Columbia Record office, went to jail for contempt. He emerged to fight a petition by Partner Hall for the sale of the papers. He lost...