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...Saint Joan. A mighty chronicle play it is with sparklingly conversation in good Shavian style. Yet I did not like the River Loire scene which is weak with miracles, not the epilogue, it being too openly didactic. But Katharine Cornell, though not saintly enough as Joan, does make the Maid a convincing martyr...
...interests and fields of general development in accordance with the idea embodied in the scheme under which they come and stay at Harvard. A tutor is a definite and recognized member of the faculty with equally definite and defined obligations to fulfill. He is not, however, a nurse-maid nor is he a camp-counselor. He has as much responsibility to himself and to the University as he has toward his tutees. Under the present system he is not being given that freedom to carry out those responsibilities, and that is the glaring fault that has reared its ugly head...
...manner of an Orpheum circuit," usually spending a week in one place, sometimes two or three if they were popular. Most places were two-girl houses; some had only one, a few three. Each house was run by a madam whose job was to rent the apartment, hire a maid, solicit customers...
...correspondent was leaving an hour and a half later. Governor Landon called to the family's Negro maid: "Call up and tell 'em to saddle Cy, Myrtle.'' Motoring out to Topeka's democratic Hunt Club, the Governor went for a brisk seven-mile canter. At 6:30 p. m. the four Landons sat down to their usual big dinner. Missing was 18-year-old Peggy Anne, the Governor's daughter by his first wife, who is a junior at Kansas University. As usual, Nurse McCue ate with the family. After dinner the Governor retired...
Juanita Harrison is a 45-year-old Negro lady's-maid who never stays long in one place. She invariably resigns her domestic job before she is fired. To Juanita work is simply the means of making enough money to move on. She began her travels at 16, and gradually got the ambitious notion of going round the world. In 1927 she had enough money saved to start. This diary of her eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita...