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...Vernon, N. Y., some nudists calling themselves The Nudist Theatre Guild recruited a few professional actors and put on a half-clothed version of the old stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused...
...hereby cancel my subscription . . . and also the subscription sent you ... as a Christmas present to Mrs. R. C. Grant, 286 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Allston (or Brighton) Mass...
From the moment she appeared, long chestnut locks falling on a sweeping Renaissance gown designed by artful Jo Mielziner, Miss Cornell handled her part with definite authority. She seemed a little less awed by Shakespeare's rich verse than such predecessors in the rôle as Jane Cowl and Eva Le Gallienne. Her technical resource was never strained as she ran the gamut of shy girlishness in the opening scenes, mischievous eroticism on the star lit balcony, near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...
There were two moments at Chestnut Hill. Pa., last week when it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's forebodings about the U. S. Women's Golf Championship were likely to be fulfilled. One came in the third round when she was 2 down, with 3 to play, against a Massachusetts girl named Rosamond Vahey. She won the next two holes and the match on the 19th. The other came when she was 3 down to Dorothy Traung, a 20-year-old San Franciscan, on the tenth hole in the final. By this time, Defending Champion...