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...original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
...intermingle enough. There is too little organization and initiative among the members themselves. The House Committee, which was appointed by the Master last fall, confined itself to a tea dance in November, and to buying magazines for the Common Room, and exhorting the students not to steal them, via the bulletin board. Last night an entertainment was provided, however, which was the work of the Committee and may presage more active days in future. The Committee begain badly by starting a collection for a House Fund which was not carried through. Some students contributed, while others were never approached. Obviously...
...distinguished by the longest by-line of all the correspondents in Shanghai. The three news services together send from 12,000 to 30,000 words a day at a cost of about $4,000. The flow of their dispatches is divided between RCA radio across the Pacific, and cable via Siberia and London. Either way transmission time to the U. S. is 30 to 50 min. (Some messages filed in duplicate both ways have met at the same instant in Chicago.) Urgent messages at $2.36 a word are flashed...
...force of 30,000 men. Moscow remained inert, but the prevailing sentiment that the goings-on at Shanghai were the prelude to more entangled international developments was expressed in a headline in the Pravda, semi-official Moscow news organ: "One against another and all against China." Reports filtered through via Berlin of a great massing of Soviet troops in Vladivostok. Two agricultural machinery factories near Moscow have been hastily converted to munitions plants...
Stepping Sisters (Fox) is a frantic little farce, derived from the comic strips via Broadway, where a play by the same name enjoyed an almost surreptitious run a year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...