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Surf in Her Head. The best feature of The Walsh Girls is its superb characterization of Lydia. Reaching her 40th birthday in the summer of 1935, teacher of high-school English to classes that were now filled with the children of her old school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class...
...this union of sales sense and pictorial passion was born Art Movement, Inc., whose Manhattan outlet is the Hall of Art. Physically the Hall of Art is a big street-floor and mezzanine store on Manhattan's West 40th Street. Artistically, it is an Ali Baba's cave whose open-sesame is the fact that its canvases, which are plainly visible through the window, have price tags that can be seen from the street. Prices range from...
...clashes this week will draw the curtain on the league's 40th season, its last normal campaign until the war is over. Dartmouth can clinch the title in a matinoe performance against Penn at Hanover tomorrow afternoon. The champions already hold a 66 to 43 decision over the Quakers, who finally snapped their four-game losing streak by downing Columbia Saturday night in the Palestra...
Divorced. By Writer Kay Boyle (Wedding Day, The First Lover, My Next Bride): Writer Laurence Vail, 52, her second; after twelve years; on her 40th birthday; in Reno...
...January night 50 years ago, way uptown at Broadway and 40th Street, there was opened a luxurious, "absolutely fireproof" theater, its facade all carved stone, its interior all red and gilt. On that evening in 1893 Manhattan did not realize that its great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth...