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...situation with which Design For Living concerns itself is somewhat unusual for light comedy-polyandry. Act I, laid in Paris, finds Actress Fontanne as Gilda (pronounced Jilda), an interior decorator vaguely troubled by the uncertainties of life. There are times when she wishes she could believe in "God and the Daily Mail and Mother India." Physiological studies do not wholly satisfy her. ("If you knew what was going on inside you, you would probably be bitterly offended.") In her quandary she is about to switch her allegiance from Otto (Mr. Lunt), a painter, to his good friend, playwriting...
...occasion was the opening of the new $700,000 building of the Worcester Art Museum, designed by William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its exterior is in the familiar Institutional Renaissance, but the interior, adapted largely from the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is one of the most efficient museum buildings in the country. As in the Fogg, galleries stem from a central Palladian arcaded courtyard...
When pious, eccentric Explorer David Livingstone vanished into Africa's interior and nothing was heard of him for over three years, he was regarded as "lost"; his disappearance became a newsworthy fact. Most resoundingly newsworthy fact, thought Editor Bennett, would be Livingstone's "discovery." He picked Stanley for the job, gave him carte blanche, sent him to Africa by a circuitous route. It took Stanley two years, cost him 23 bouts of tropical fever, cost Bennett a pretty penny, but Stanley got his man. Every continent chuckled over his famed greeting. Said Stanley: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone...
...Passed a $43,652,000 Interior Department appropriation after inserting (138-10-105) a $460,000 item for a heating plant for Howard University (Negro) which G. O. Politicians considered important for party rebuilding; sent it to the Senate...
Appointed three years ago by President Hoover, with Secretary of the Interior Wilbur as chairman, the National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy made its final report last week. Then, lacking funds to carry on, it passed out of existence. The National Illiteracy Crusade in Washington will continue its work...