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...keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling mad, resolved to return to the U. S. and launch a holy war for woman's rights...
During the day-long program the alumni will visit classes and laboratories, lunch in the college dining halls, see the Harvard-Yale football game replayed on the screen, and take part in an afternoon symposium. Visits to the cyclotron atom-smasher and special tours of Widener are scheduled...
With Lois Wilson, oldtime screen star, appearing as witness on her behalf, old-time Screen Star May McAvoy, heroine of such silent film favorites of two decades ago as Sentimental Tommy, charged that Maurice G. Cleary, her theatrical agent husband, deserted her last year, forcing her to go on relief. Miss McAvoy got her divorce and a Los Angeles court order requiring Cleary to contribute $100 monthly to the support of their eight-year...
...Front Page, walked off the set in a huff. For a year he couldn't get a job or even an interview despite his standing as one of the top cameramen in town. When Brother Jack Warner, whom he calls "Mr. Warner Brothers," finally hired him to shoot screen tests, Tony discovered the cold shoulder came from a whispering campaign that his eyesight was failing-the kiss of death for any cameraman. The rumor finally dispelled, Tony is now well back in the swim, crucifying the King's English, doing his important share of the business of getting...
...them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...