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...counsels on the brief of the Bryce-Powell Club were J.S. Compton 3L., S.J. Elder 3L., Albert Langeluttig 3L., W.H. Neary 3L., D.V. Prugh 3L., and R.G. Wilson...
Several of his friends, among them Compton Mackenzie and John Masefield, persuaded him to come to this country to gain new themes on which to base stories, and to study the people who form one of the largest groups which reads his stories...
West 45th St.--A musical comedy tart is both musical and comic. Gershwin Brothers saw to it that Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, and Victor Moore had the material, and these three, aided by the dancing of Harland Dixon and Betty Compton, made good use of it. When they play "Do Do Do" and "Clap Yo" Hands," the audience does...
Imperial West 45th St.--Oh Kay! The combination is appalling: Gershwin brothers, Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, Victor Moore, Betty Compton, Ohman and Arden, and more yet. Gertrude Lawrence makes all our American musical comedy stars look like--asterisks on a billboard. She dances, sings acts, looks enchanting and does every one of the various things in her own individual pleasing way. Betty Compton and Harland Dixon do a fine comedy dance together...
NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET-Appleton ($2.50). Only experts are allowed to work on Joy Street- such writers as Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, Rose Fyleman, Hilaire Belloc, Compton Mackenzie, Laurence Housman, Hugh Chesterman. Mr. de la Mare's contribution concerns John Cobbler, a Wiltshire boy who was turned into a tench. Mr. Belloc, in verse, confesses himself a votary...