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...Milton Shubert, producer). Wrote Author-Playwright Priestley (The Good Companions, Laburnum Grove) in the New York Times three weeks before his lastest play opened in Manhattan: " I should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into the rose-tinted twilight of the Haymarket...
...crowd which went down to the dock to bid farewell to the highest ranking U. S. officer ever to visit the Philippines and his fellow-travelers , found the gaunt face of Speaker of the House Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that the U. S. eagle still has a protective wing over the Philippines,* was not evident in irrepressibly democratic Mr. Garner's farewell remarks...
...roast beef, au jus" and "au gratin potatoes" at the same meal, the least the French department can do is teach him how correctly to describe his predicament. The French A student is prepared to read "L'Illustration", but he cannot quote, without the largest misgivings, a "New Yorker" article mentioning "crepes suzettes," or the "joie...
...assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus (514 B.C.) and were in turn put to death?ED. **TIME, LETTERS, FORTUNE, Reader's Digest, House & Garden, Better Homes & Gardens, McCall's, Pathfinder, Literary Digest, New Yorker, Popular Science. ?Apparently of the "white collar" class?$5,000 a year...
...York City in 1894, short, dark Raymond Holden graduated from Princeton in 1915, served on the Mexican border with the National Guard and in the Army during the War. Afterwards he worked in a publishing office, on the staff of Travel Magazine, was an executive editor of The New Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded pseudonym...