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Cohan and Harris reunite after a long separation to present "Fulton of Oak Falls" and to add another piece to the former's gallery of middle-aged portraits. They give us Mr. Cohan "in his own way of telling the story of Parker Fennelly's" work of the same name, and the product indicates that Mr. Cohan is thoroughly the major contributor...
...they get to Smith or Vassar it is often with a sigh of relief. "Ten bar girls," who have served ten terms in the student government, are Duces, and the girl voted outstanding in each graduating class is an Optima. Both Optimae and Duces have their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer their last name. For exercise Rosemarians play hockey, ride with Miss Lowndes, whose inveterate sidesaddle horsewomanship is reputedly attested by a platinum rib, or go for "bounds" (rapid walks...
...Fumed Oak, "an unpleasant comedy" in which a lower-class family's sodden routine is disrupted when the husband rebels, abandons...
Vinton Freedley, New York City; Frederick Holdsworthy, Jr. Brookline; Thomas V. Healey, Worcester; Christian M. Lauritzen, Chicago, III.; Walter Ridder, New York City; Phillip Neal, Oak Park, III.; Herbert Scheinberg, New York City...
...office behind the door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely...