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...everything except furniture. Sears, Roebuck sells that too. Stock designs are kept for milk houses, stables, silos, summer camp bungalows. The company will alter its plans to suit, or even build to order. A prize customer was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (paid $77,000 for the Alice-in-Wonderland manuscript) who has a Sears, Roebuck summer home at Ocean Beach...
...plays which have been presented in the past and will be put on again, seven new pieces will be on view during Civic Repertory's coming season: Siegfried by Jean Giraudoux; Alison's House by Susan Glaspell (based on the life of Emily Dickinson); Alice in Wonderland; Gruach and Ardvor-lich's Wife by Gordon Bottomley; Noble Prize by Hjalinar Bergman; Rosmersholm by Ibsen...
...Gallienne, founder-directrix of the Civic Repertory Theatre, was last week looking for a pig. She had to have one for her friend Josephine Hutchinson to carry when she plays Alice in Wonderland. A complete search of Manhattan's pet shops failed to reveal a suitable animal so Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would...
...Gridiron Club dinner went President Hoover last week to watch Washington newsmen make fun of his policies, to see his Secretary of State at the London Naval Conference burlesqued as Alice in Wonderland, his National Republican Chairman consigned to political limbo, to hear John Philip Sousa lead the Marine band in a rousing new Sousa March dedicated to Britain's Royal Welch Fusiliers. It was this regiment which joined the U. S. Marines in lifting the Boxer siege of Tientsin (1900) and helping to rescue Herbert Hoover, engineer...
...juveniles, in addition to the usual Biography, Drama, Travel, Poetry and History sections. The list ranges from Benvenuto Cellini's Auto biography to the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (banned in Boston) to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland...