Broadway exiles in California and shifting shows
The piece surveys former Broadway writers actors and directors enjoying California luxuries while lamenting the theatre’s harsh tempo. It contrasts stage and cinema, notes director creativity versus actor or writer ego, and cites Richard Watts Jr on Broadway drift and Efron’s rise from bank clerk to financier.
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Richard Watts, Jr
New York Herald Tribune
California
Lotus Land
Broadway
Alexander Efron
Russia
Finland
Germany
New York
Richardson Wood
Efron
National Safevy
Aus and Trust Company
Garment Center
Theatrical
Television's social impact and uncertain future
Wharton argues television will demand undivided attention and alter home life unlike radio. The piece notes eye fatigue, potential limits on viewing, and questions how mass adoption in cities could affect radio sales in 1936–1938 as TV launches loom.
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Wharton
Schribner's Magazine
John Hays Hammond
New York
Guiding Your Child by Alice Clarissa Richmond
Advice against using physical punishment to discipline children. Highlights risks include permanent injury and loss of parental respect, noting ears and head are particularly vulnerable and that the buttocks are the least harmful target for discipline. Emphasizes stopping to think before acting.
Grid star turned monk in English Abbey
Scotland’s Paul Campbell, famed football figure and Edinburgh native, joins the Cistercian Order at Mount Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire. The 30 year old, Glasgow University alumnus, famed for a varsity blue, embraces monastic life with austere daily routine. The piece also notes the literary term trilogy from Greek origins as a separate aside.
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Paul Campbell
Scotland
Edinburgh
Abbey of
Mount Bernard
Charnwood Forest
Leicestershire
England
Campbell
Glasgow University
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James Howard Wellard
Yale Review
Eton
Harrow
Marlborough
Oxford
Cambridge
Oas
Mark Rudich
Margie Munigan
Munivan
Major la Candia
Bogis
Boots
Olas
Tarzan
Senor Raglan
Raglan
Paco
Jited Wife
Posse
Black Eyes
THE
Fire National Guard
Cauliflower Ears
Blondie
Ragland
Dagwood Bumstead
Eskimos
Kips
Mussolini
Ues
Heyfellers
Alaska
Gyloos
Ike
Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Hacket
Fanny
Dixie
Flapper
By Sylvia
Gwick
Tails
Grandpa
Grampa
Alice Clarissa Richmond
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