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...play begins rather slowly and the tendency to moralize is perhaps so apparent. But Tom Powers puts he show over with such refreshing naturalness and wit that one cannot help becoming enthusiastic over his worth, Helen Rag as Mrs. Mitchell, Francis Compton as the impossible Helford and Shepperd Strudwick rejoicing in the name of Prince Ivan Gregorievifel Sneojaganeenoff, head an able supporting cast...
...Husband's Holiday" is a re-simmering of the free-soul theme in a middle-class milieu. Living in sin has seldom been more pedestrian. Miss Vivienne Osborne permits her husband, Mr. Clive Brook, to conduct his extra-martial affair with Miss Juliette Compton, knowing that he'll come home just as surely as Little Bo-Peep. There is little for the erring husband to choose between the two women, and Mr, Brook takes no great pleasure in either. Neither does the Playgoer. Best scene: Mr. Brook playing with the children's toy tracks...
Save for Chairman Alvan Emile Duerr of the Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...
While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed
...scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing in the sanitorium, is promoted...