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At 25 he was superintendent of the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100...
The University's latest admirer is none other than Miss Olivia "Skeeter" Mathews, of Dedham. Formerly prominent in society, she began to be bored with its "petty functions," and turned to aviation as a diversion. Before long she had become so absorbed in it that even dances lost their pristine...
Last week in Manhattan, two seasoned actresses undertook Hedda Gabler, in different theatres, simultaneously. Admirers of the two ladies, as well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It...
Mr. Grove never becomes sentimental--his early life as a bored cynic among the petty literati of European salons precludes sentimentality. His excellent and expensive academic education gives him a background and a sense of proportion and combines with his very real talent as a writer to give us a...
Finally the house is full. With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies. Then to the stage steps someone who is someone. He makes a speech. He summons to his side the stars of the particular pictures. They bow and...