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Gilda Gray, whose beaded shimmy-dancing startled a lot of people in the '20s, startled Sterling, Colo. The assistant principal of the high school invited her to a school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said...
...night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
...Play's the Thing (adapted from the Hungarian of Ferenc Molnar by P. G. Wodehouse; produced by Gilbert Miller, in association with James Russo and Michael Ellis) first reached Broadway-when Molnar was the thing-in the mid-'20s. A successful trifle then, it may easily prove a successful trifle now. If it spends most of its time winking at the audience, if without managing to be a play at all it presumes to offer a play within a play, its suavity saves it. It has that light touch which for so long, with Molnar, proved a Midas...
Amelita Galli-Curci, famed opera star of the '20s, turned up at the Met opening in Los Angeles, surprised a lot of people who had heard little of her for years. Still tiny (shoe size: 2½B) and bubbly at 58, she confided to an interviewer the secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...