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...will world-famed artists be engaged. Six-week seasons in autumn and winter and fortnightly seasons in six outlying cities will be given by British artists at popular prices. The scheme is not unlike that propounded by Sir Thomas Beecham who has already spent $10,000,000 of his pill fortune on opera in England...
...Thomas Beecham, famed orchestral conductor, son of the potent pill tycoon, read in a London newspaper last week that he had been fined ?10 ($50) for failing to answer a summons...
...iron dog in a front lawn. Long since decided that some doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother. For this extract will not help such as I either in pill form or serum. Am 26, single, bulldog head, (ed) and flat feet. And when my pituitary snaps, loquacious...
Author Evelyn Waugh, very conscious member of the post-War generation, writes so brightly, wittily, entertainingly that you may swallow this sugar pill of a novel almost without tasting its bitter centre...
...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...