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...coffee king," but he has to earn a few beans before he can plant any, and this involves 246 pages of wild but cheerful complications. Among them: a girl named Sally, whom Freddy considers "the biggest thing since sliced bread," a lady novelist who smokes cigars, a snake named Mabel, and the ice in the title-which happens...
...President Wil liam Howard Taft's daughter Helen. The cream of official Washington society, in what is likely to be Mamie's swan song as White House hostess, met Ellen Moore, 19, and Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 18, daughters of the First Lady's sister, M. (for Mabel) Frances Moore. Reminiscing about her own White House debut and other gay days, retired Bryn Mawr College Dean Helen Taft Manning, 69, relived a Christmastime dance of long ago: "Mother and father were oldfashioned, and along about 3 o'clock they wanted to go to bed themselves. So things...
...weaker sex was. The leading women did not match the men; neither Joan Corbett (Mabel) nor Dorothy Maney (Ruth) has a particularly fine voice, and neither of them acts very well. Miss Corbett's sense of timing hurt her performance again and again, making her first entrance almost painful; her voice and Miss Maney's sounded strained, particularly on higher notes. I always enjoy praising actresses, but can find little to say for these except that although they did nothing to help the show they did not hurt it badly...
...MABEL ROMM...
Looking as much like a pretty baby as any prince, Britain's Bonnie Prince Andrew, aged six months, was pictured in the arms of his doting nanny, Mabel Anderson, as he boarded a train at London's King's Cross Station. Spry but not yet self-propelled on foot, he was on his way to a holiday at Scotland's Balmoral Castle with his royal parents, showed signs of a future Churchillian determination in the clench of his tiny fists...