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...even the severest critic of pomp & circumstance could accuse the Troop of being mere dress-up soldiers. On the staff of its guidon are silver bands for service in major battles from Trenton and Princeton in the Revolution to the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. Regular National Guard enlistment is for three years; City Troopers enlist for seven. Rookies find advancement slow, the selection of officers meticulous. No man can hope to become a corporal before eight years, a sergeant before ten. John C. Groome Jr., a coal company president who was the Troop's captain until...
Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan...
Harley Granville-Barker, noted English dramatist and Shakespearean critic, is giving currently a series of six lectures on Shakespeare's "Othello," as visiting lecturer in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's course. English 23, on Shakespeare. The lectures will be open to members of the University on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week, and next, in Emerson Hall D. at 12 o'clock...
...many a critic of Tin Pan Alley, the bright side of B. M. I.-ASCAP bickering was the hope that disheartened common listeners might turn to serious music. More than offsetting this Ivory Tower optimism was the gloom of advertisers. Uncertain how the public was taking it all, they hoped their goods would not stagnate on their shelves. If that hope isn't realized, the war may end abruptly, since money will talk no matter what radio wants to sing...
From then on express liners shuttled her back & forth across the Atlantic from hit to hit. Some of her plays were dramatically feeble ? but she was always the delectable Lawrence. The London Times's dramatic critic observed: "Miss Lawrence's performance is nearly always a matter of making bricks without straw." The management of His Majesty's Theatre once had to serve breakfast, lunch and tea to a queue of 300 who had lined up 24 hours before a Lawrence first night. In the U. S. she played in another Chariot's Revue, the Gershwin musicomedy Oh, Kay!, Treasure...