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...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
Thirteen years ago Eleanor Robson, a popular and able actress, retired from the stage coincidentally with her marriage to August Belmont. She has not acted since. Her plunge into playwrighting was occasioned by insomnia. In the pursuit of sleep one night she picked up The Boule Cabinet; it so effectively banished the final vestiges of slumber that she concluded it had merits as a play. She summoned Harriet Ford (who wrote for her A Gentleman of France and Audrey 15 years ago), and after working over the plot for a year, introducing romance and laughter, they presented it for managerial...
...Belmont, President of the Party, led the delegation, and introduced as spokesman Miss Maud Younger, Chairman of the Party's Congressional Committee. Miss Younger asked the President to support the Party's amendment, delicately hinting that he might mention the matter in his message to Congress. President Coolidge replied with a metaphorical bow and a veiled injunction that the Woman's Party had best do its own speaking to Congress...
...conference closed next day with a mass meeting in the crypt of the Capitol, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the equal rights movement. Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont in addressing the group declared...
...England. The huge silver airship was first seen from Harvard Square as it floated over East Cambridge. At the time the Shenandoah was reported to be logging 58 knots, or considerable more than 60 miles an hour. By 12.50 o'clock it had passed out of sight beyond Belmont...