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Once a highschool teacher, small, grey, solemn Alfred Adams Wheat retains the manner and appearance of a pedagog. Born in New Hampshire of old Yankee stock, he entered the District of Columbia bar in 1891. A Republican, he was appointed by President Hoover in 1929 to the District of Columbia's Supreme Court bench, where he moved up next year to be Chief Justice. From that bench last week he handed President Roosevelt's social program a major set-back by declaring the Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional, granting an injunction against its operation...
Competent and strong, Footballer Sturm's portrait heads revealed more finish than would be expected from a man who studied only a few weeks at Yale School of Fine Arts, served a brief apprenticeship in drawing under John Sloan. Most appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait...
...genial comedy in which Sir James Barrie expressed this sentiment was first produced in the U. S. in 1908 with Maude Adams playing the lead, revived in 1926 for Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes has the same part in the cinema version- that of Maggie Wylie who marries a solemn young Scot against his will, helps him get elected to Parliament, manages his career for him so unobtrusively that he considers his accomplishments inspired by a glamorous outsider. Only when John Shand (Brian Aherne) tries to get along without Maggie does he begin to realize what she has meant...
...last time University Hall was redecorated, in 1923, the painters ran into a snag. The difficulty arose over the question of what colors should be used in the Faculty Room, but after prolonged and solemn deliberation, a sort of greyish green and light cream was chosen...
...25th reunion presented this aristocrat among chugg-buggies to President Lowell. For many years it served its illustrious master faithfully, but at last was supplanted by a newer creation when the venerable Prexy surrendered to the modern urge for speed. It was given away, on the recipient's solemn promise never to return it to Cambridge, and for years it has cruised about the further reaches of Massachusetts, never till now returning to the scene of its halcyon days...