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Editor of Tiny Tower is Bosco Cass, who uses her real name, Edna Cass Noll, only when signing the adult poetry she sometimes writes. She graduated seven years ago from Emerson College, where she gave weekly readings in Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
Playwright Black begins her tender drama with the children's party, during which Martin evidences his desire to ''spy'' on grownups. In the next scene, pitched 20 years into the future, Martin gets his wish. During a weekend party given by his now adult companions, the cook reports that a funny kind of a man has appeared at her kitchen asking for cake. The man, Martin (James Bell), is brought in. He captivates the company with his ingenuousness, his embarrassing candor about the most personal matters, his in cessant hunger. More than anyone else, Phyllis...
...adult has traveled on the way of life since childhood is always poignantly brought home to us whenever we read so excellent a story as that of the Colonel's children. There are three of them, all under the care of the most entertaining Mammy there ever could be, and it is she who provides the pathos and zest in her lovingly abusive handling of these refractory "chillun". The locale might be any southern town and the phrases of the youngsters are largely composed of the rich, picturesque language of the Negro...
...engaging in research work concerning the American Revolution, and the influence of common law on American constitutional ideas. He has written several books on different subjects; the most important of these is that entitled "Revolutions in European History," while others include, "Age of the Church," and "The Problem of Adult Education." None of these have been translated into English. Before the war, he studied at King's College, and was later associated with Toynbee Hall, in London, an organization similar to Hull House in Chicago, which is engaged in bringing more culture to the inhabitants of the eastern side...