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Guest of honor at a dinner preceding the 77th annual Charity Ball for the New York Nursery & Child's Hospital, was white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted...
...badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written in an impersonal vein by a man who does not attempt to analyze and explain each movement of the characters; he presents a vivid picture of his characters and allows the reader to draw all the inane conclusions...
...Received from Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, Minister of Labor, precisely the sort of bill to "reform" the British Dole which might be expected from a graduate of Rugby and Christ Church College, Oxford, and a member of the arch-Tory Carlton Club...
Consolidated Telegrams. Newcomb Carlton, chairman of Western Union, has steadily opposed merging Western Union with Postal Telegraph, subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph. Last week in London he gave his blessing to a sort of merger: Western Union's English and European offices with those of R. C. A. Communications, Inc. (subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America), of Commercial Cables Co. (I. T. & T. cable subsidiary) and of Imperial & International, British Wireless and Cable Company. The merged offices, he distinctly explained, are to operate in a fashion similar to consolidated railway ticket offices; the companies remain separate...
...Angeles' Alhambra Airport for a pleasure ride, lit blandly on the edge of town. Citizens were amazed to learn that he could not have been held responsible for any damage his plummeting plane might have done, was not legally responsible to the plane's owner, Mark G. Carlton, for the cracked-up ship...