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...could find no takers. She was ready to give up acting to try running a hotel in Paris when Director Allan Dwan offered her a job in Hollywood. The part that made her a cinema star, as she had been a stage star 25 years before,* came later-a bit in Anna Christie. Said Cinemactress Dressier: "They make you a star and then you starve. All I want is a small part to come in and upset the plot...
...Room after the John Winthrop House Thursday evening dinner, Admiral W. S. Sims, U.S.N. retired, remarked "the world situation calls to my mind the picture of a cauldron of boiling oil, around which stand the so-called statesmen of the world. Every now and then they drop in a bit of ice to keep it from boiling over. They do not think of the fire below. Not the number of weapons, but the causes of war is the vital question...
...unable to keep his engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra because of arm neuritis. Illustrious conductors are difficult to obtain on short notice. The management thought of Ormandy, his good stewardship in radio (Dutch Masters, Jack Frost hours), his occasional successes at summer concerts in Philadelphia and Manhattan. A bit bewildered by his good fortune, Ormandy set out for Philadelphia, conducted so expertly that even Stokowski addicts were enthusiastic. Minneapolis, hearing of his achievement, immediately summoned him to substitute this week for Belgian Henri Verbrugghen, also ailing. Minneapolis will find him as Philadelphia did, a diligent, painstaking musician, free from mannerisms...
...used it well, creating out of the Brown Decades a period both instructive and entertaining to modern readers. If it is less interesting than his earlier works, the fault is in the period, not in the interpreter; prospective readers need to be warned, however, to expect an unusually straightforward bit of writing, and incidentally of economic criticism on page...
...Nearly every leader in the party urged me very strongly to nominate Jack. Of course I must express whatever views I do express with a little bit of diffidence in discussing...