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...especially when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement for those who have never tried...
...Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...
Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
Born. To Mrs. Ruth von Phul, so-called "crossword puzzle champion," a daughter, in Manhattan...