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...Motion Picture Democratic Committee (Dashiell Hammett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, Melvyn Douglas, Donald Ogden Stewart et al.) telegraphed to Republican Governor Frank Merriam: "FOUR YEARS AGO WE . . . HAD TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO YOUR CAMPAIGN FUND TO SAVE CALIFORNIA
...Lyme, Conn., the 37th annual summer exhibition of the Lyme Art Association opened with 270 pieces in the big, grey-shingled gallery that fronts the Boston Post Road. Predominately conservative, it included water colors and prints, skilful oils by Ogden Pleissner and Abram Poole, at prices that ranged from $5 for etchings to $2,500 for Ivan G. Olinsky's strong oil, John and Marie...
...Miss Ogden pours her heaviest scorn on finishing schools. She studied nine of the most exclusive.* They go in, she reports, for uniforms, sports, compulsory chapel, languages (particularly French), literature, music, art, and keeping the girls away from boys...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...Miss Ogden concludes: "Today the chances are that better education [than Society Girls get in finishing schools] is available to their poor relations...