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Evergreen and holly will fill the dinning hall where the Funster dramatic talent will present "The Handsome Housemaid; or, Piety in Pattens." The cast, as announced by Robert G. Noyes, assistant professor of English and director of the play will include: Robert S. Clements '40; Grocker Wight '38; Julian Lazrus '40; and Ralph L. Gustin, Jr. '40. Also a chorus including James F. Gerrity, 2d, '39, Joe W. Gerrity, Jr., '38, William V. McDermott, Jr., '38, Francis W. Scofield '40, Friedrich W. Stolper, tutor in Economics, Reginald T. Wheeler, Jr., '38; Robert H. Chase '38 and Michael Linenthal...
...half years' vacation have done Ethel Barrymore good. Her Royal Family tricks are polished up. She lowers her eyebrows and leers Barrymorishly, poses in her swishing draperies. Her voice still sounds like a primeval maiden's wailing for a demon lover. She still brings to the theatre talent in such abundance that, compared to her, most other actresses are as watery custard to rich plum pudding...
...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
...characteristic author's abandon about themselves, their books, literature and each other. In Boston for six days nearly 60 authors followed each other on the platform of an improvised exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck...
Harlow has relied upon this system because of his material. He has a good many ball toters of more than average ability, but none who can go places without lots of road-paving. His problem was one of producing a team of average talent but perfectly drilled being able to outsmart a team of "naturals". And so the Crimson eleven has rehearsed its plays until they are executed with Roxy precision, whether it be on an end sweep, linebuck, or pass. The only scores upon which they can safely rely are those hammered out behind smart play execution...