Brideshead Revisited Reveres Old England in Waugh Novel
The reviewer, describing himself as a reluctant reactionary, praises Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited for its elegiac portrait of a decaying English aristocracy. The narrative follows Captain Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Julia and Cordelia at Brideshead, contrasting old values with a rising modern world.
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England
Brideshead
Evelyn Waugh
Mr. Hooper
Charles Ryder
Marquis of Marchmain
Ryder
Oxford
Lord Sebastian, Flyte
Julia
Cordelia
Elkader Woman Attorney To Wed Elkader Woman Attorney
Elkader Mrs Clarence F Murphy announces the approaching marriage of her daughter Lorna D to William H Tinsley of Harland The ceremony will be Monday at St Josephs parsonage in Elkader Miss Murphy is a University of Iowa graduate and an attorney with a local firm The Army and Navy Officers Wives clubs meet Thursday at 630 pm at the Roosevelt hotel Dinner follows with bridge reservations through two contacts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Rosemary Cooper
E. C. Cooper
Elmwood Farm
DuWayne B. Baker
B. C. Baker
Blake Boulevard
Marvin B. Kober
Evelyn Cooper
Cedar Rapids
John Ely
Lincoln-Jefferson
Roosevelt Hotel
Santa Ana
Calif
Coe College
Kappa Delta Social Sorority
Mu Phi Epsilon
University of Iowa
Army Air Corps
Elkader
Clarence F. Murphy
Lorna D
Wiliam H. Tinsley
C. G. Tinsley
Harland
St. Joseph's Parsonage
Miss. Murphy
Army
Navy
Robert MacLean
Ernest Rasmussen
Paris Hats Copy Out This Week in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids department store debuts first Paris model hat copies and adaptations this week. Styles include a perfect dressy suiter, uneven profile lines, Swiss braid with flowers, a snail contour with shells, and lacy spring sailors. Also notes a Bird Club meeting at Coe College and Carrie Morcombe Lodge No 2 officers installed at Sokol hall with a drill team demonstration.
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Paris
Cedar Rapids
Chapeau Jovers
Anatole
Janette Colombier
Rose Descat
Maude Et Nano
Bird Club
Coe College Science Hall
Iola Tillapaugh
Carrie Morcombe
Sokol Hall
Ethel M. Mathews
Lillian Privitt
Ethel Darling
Lenora Rehmel
Lillian Schwartz
Carrie Brown
Ruth McCabe
Irene Jacobs
Bessie Culbreth
Frances Bowen
Allie Powers
Benejah Winters
Gladys McGreedy
Gladys Knight
Dorothy Shayer
Wettie Chiverton
Community notices and meeting plans for local groups
A.AUW and Mrs. F G Murray speak Monday at 4 30 p m at the Y W C A for the teachers international relationship group All teachers invited Mrs R I Stoddard reviews One Nation by Wallace Stegner for First Presbyterian Guild No 3 Tuesday at 1 p m at Miss Laura Turners home 301 Twenty third street drive SE Creative Writers meet Wednesday at Miss Elizabeth Thompsons home 2137 First avenue SE Leader Miss Thompson Evening Reading Group meets Monday 7 30 p m at Miss Florence Felien 851 Third avenue SE Miss Agnes Carlson reviews Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis Assisting hostess Miss Helen Schloeman International relations group meets Thursday 2 p m at Mrs Carl Ettinger 2635 Bever avenue SE Rabbi Herman E Schaalman discusses The Zionist Movement
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F. G. Murray
Bureau
Y.W.C.A
Teachers’ International Relationship Group
R. I. Stoddard
One Nation
Wallace Stegner
First Presbyterian Guild No
Laura Turner
Twenty Third Street Drive
Creative Writers
Elizabeth Thompson
First Avenue SE
Miss Thompson
Florence Felien
Third Avenue SE
Helen Schloeman
Cass Timberlane
Sinclair Lewis
Agnes Carlson
Carl Ettinger
Bever Avenue
Herman E. Schaalman
Zionist Movement
Betty Stevens Engaged to Pfc Rene Levesque
Announcement notes the engagement of Betty Stevens of 1222 Lake Avenue NE to Pfc Rene Levesque son of Mr and Mrs Phillip Levesque of Woonsocket Rhode Island. The wedding is planned for mid January. Stevens is a McKinley high school graduate employed at Wilson and Co.
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Betty Stevens
Bert Stevens
Lake Avenue NE
Pfc
Rene Levesque
Phillip Levesque
Woonsocket
R. I
Miss Stevens
McKinley High School
Wilson and
P.E.O. Meetings Schedule Luncheons and Hosts
P E O Chapter II meets Monday at 1 for a dessert luncheon hosted by Mrs H L Kennedy at 2434 E Avenue NE with Mrs Earl B Delzell assisting. Mrs O W Lawrence reviews a books selection. Chapter III meets Monday at 1 15 p m for a salad luncheon hosted by Mrs Jay W Hesser at 805 Fifth Avenue SE with Mrs Carrie Thomas and Mrs Hesser leading the program.
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H. L. Kennedy
E Avenue NE
Earl B. Delzell
O W. Lawrence
Jay W. Hesser
Fifth Avenue SE
Carrie Thomas
Hesser
Mrs. Effie Schroeder Returns from Southern Visit
Mrs. Effie K. Schroeder of 2014 Avenue NW has returned home after six weeks in the South visiting her daughter Mrs. Sam V. Anderson in Greenville Mississippi.
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Effie K. Schroeder
Avenue NW
Greenville
Miss
Sam V. Anderson
Schroeder
South
Dinner for Vets at Trinity Lutheran Church
The Army and Navy Mothers club at Trinity Lutheran held a Friday evening dinner in the church parlors to honor war veterans. Rev. P. L. Bornhoeft led the event with remarks by club president Mrs. Arthur Euken and decorations arranged by Mrs. Walter Euken. Veterans proposed forming a church‑affiliated veterans club with a tentative constitution drafted by August Brehm, Dale Kiecksee, George Le Clerc, and Edward Euken. The final draft will be circulated for church approval.
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Army and Navy Mothers’ Club
Trinity Lutheran Church
P. L. Bornhoeft
Arthur Euken
Walter Euken
August Brehm
Dale Kiecksee
George le Clerc
Edward Euken
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Mrs. Duwayne B. Baker
A Tyree
T. Wong Photo
Baker
City of
Air Corps
Mr. Waugh
Mr. Attlee
Charles
Sebastian
J. K. Lasser
Ment
Tex
Ting
Sanford
His Valentine
First Ave
Lornad, Murphy
A.auw
Speaker's Bureau
Gee
Washington, D. C
Herbert C. Gee
Philip
Marion
Col. Gee
Hokkaido
Japan
Eighth Army
West Point
Levesque
Harvard
Neb
Army Air Base
Sharon Kegler
Anjanette Kosek
Ernest Koseks
Second Street
Patricia Perwitt
Steven Prewitt
Susan Smith
Barbara Kegler
Sharon
Cyril N. Kegler
Country Club Parkway
P.E.O. Meetings
Trinity Lutheran
WAC Mothers Club
Wac Mothers Association
The
Light Company
Lillian Schmidt
Effie Elliott
Elizabeth Shadid
Mae Wagner
Mitzi Gugenball
Wace
Merrimyx Dance Club
Merrimyx Dancing Club
Cleo
Newman
John Steinbeck
Charlotte Bronze
Edgar Snow
Charles Reade
Charles A. Ward
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
O. Henry
Stephen Crane
John Milton
Dorothy Parker
Vincent Sheean
Newman's
Dempsey's Dry Cleaners
Oscar Workman
Pete Goodale
Bishops
Idaho
Iowa
Cristo
Tryt
Cerieua
Hollywood
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