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...warring factions of a Southern family has been thumbed religiously by nice little girls since 1895. "The Little Colonel" was full grown and on the road to matrimony before Mrs. Johnston was through with her. Shirley Temple is not quite six but, dressed up in flounces and high-button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort...
...Sloan comes out "forcibly" against the asparagus fern, whose "color, texture and scale are all bad." White roses, says she, "are never wholly successful. Even the best fade very rapidly, almost before they open." The button chrysanthemum she finds one of the few small flowers which look well on the Lord's table. "Once we used button chrysanthemums in yellow and deep bronze with dark red oak leaves at the base. Very Spanish, when seen at close range; but the colors were massed in such a way that from a distance they looked like two lovely flames...
Nattily dressed in a fashionable three button sack suit, a gentleman was seen yesterday morning to traverse the thawing snow between Charles River Parkway and the river near Weld boathouse...
Referring to the illustration on p. 59 of your issue of Feb. 11, do we see correctly that Mr. Myron Charles Taylor wears button shoes? If so, he is the first man whom we have seen wearing button shoes in the last ten years or more...
...newshawks in the courtroom, each with his own bag of tricks, another had chosen the same device. The New York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...