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MARY REEVE DEXTER Pacific Grove, Calif...
...Laburnum Grove (by John Boynton Priestley; Gilbert Miller & Milton Shubert, producers). When cheerful Novelist Priestley discovered that all was right with the world-or soon would be-he began to make a small fortune out of his books (The Good Companions; English Journey). He is likely to make another fortune from the stage on the strength of his discovery that a playwright can get by with a few unpretentious tricks and a couple of good characters. For the characters of Bernard Baxley and George Radfern in Laburnum Grove, Playwright Priestley may be forgiven almost any of his dramatic shortcomings. Bernard...
...from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came for a day, stayed a week. Two Chinese cooks, a butler, a second man, a maid for the cabins, take care of the guests, except at luncheon, which is prepared by Mrs. Norris herself in a picnic grove cookhouse...
...also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...Captain Herman Gundlach and his mates, such as has seldom been seen HARVARD Ford l.h.b. Bilodeau q.b. Ecker f.b. Blackwood r.h.b. Dubiel l.e. Burton l.t. Schumann l.g. Comfort c. Gundlach r.g. Watson r.t. Kelly r.e. Stromberg r.e. Beall r.t. Stillman r.g. Vincent c. Brearley l.g. Miller l.t. Shuler l.e. Grove r.h.b. King q.b. Stancook f.b. Buckler l.h.b. ARMY...