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...cast for "The Queen's Husband," maiden play of the newly organized Freshman Dramatic Club, has been chosen from the combined talent of the Freshman classes of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...slave trade and taking the Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped by thorns, drenched by tropical storms, lashed by callous or vicious agents, cheated at the scales when they brought in their rubber, and kept in perpetual slavery...
...radio fans who visited Keith's this week to have a look at Phil Baker and his stooges were overpowered when presented with real talent such as Jack Whiting and Mitzi Mayfair. After appearing with Baker in the recent "Calling All Stars," they have accompanied him on his vaudeville tour. Herein lies a chance for Harvard men who miss their Broadway to get just a touch of it. But it's only a fleeting glimpse. Jack Whiting exhibits his handsome blond profile in putting across, as only he can, a few of the songs from his stage successes. And buxom...
...certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...