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Engaged. Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; to Alton Parker Hall, son of the Rev. Charles Mercer Hall, rector of Trinity Church, Bridgeport, Conn...
...lovely architecture of these desolate palaces, the faded paintings on crumbling temple walls, the grace and symmetry of sculpture found on monuments buried under the matted undergrowth of who knows how many years, all stamp the builders of these cities as the creators of the highest civilization that flourished in the New World before the coming of Europeans. "New World?" Outstanding facts in the history of these first Americans have now been traced back to the ancient days when Thales was founding Greek philosophy...
...have been moving and impressive. Cameron Rogers has compiled an interesting and very well illustrated collection of drinking songs and poems under the title of "Full and By." A. P. Herbert's "Laughing Ann" has the gaiety of Milne's "When We Were Very Young," but it has more grace and skill if it lacks something of the jolly quotable rhythm. Miss Lowell's "What's O'Clock," published a few months after her death, contains some very charming poetry of her familiar variety. "Earth Moods? by Hervey Allen surveys the world from its creation in a large and hearty...
...Claude Grahame-White, famed British aero-engineer, is widely known as an international yachtsman, a minor big-game hunter, and a member of the famed Eccentrics' Club of London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...
...hopping to Mr. Dunham's monotonous fiddle. Surely there is no harm in such exercise. The young people who went through it with Mr. Dunham made a lot of noise to indicate enjoyment, but looked very much as if they would rather be doing something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively that the barn dance is perhaps the foundation...