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Graduated from a genteel ladies' seminary at 16, married at 18, Dorothy Dix was thrown on her own resources by an invalid husband. Fear of the poorhouse produced a nervous breakdown, to recover from which friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...
...elder McGuire sold Outdoor Life, retired to California. Harry McGuire went to Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...
...tutorial situation, as well, is discouraging. Understaffing and the pressure of lecture duties have led to a partial breakdown of the system. The result is, of course, that the Sociology concentrator is left with lecturing as the staple of his educational diet...
...traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
...quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been interrupted by the breakdown of her ivory Issota...