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...behind the façade of justice erected by the rulers at Vichy less dignified machinations were in progress last week. It was far from certain that the trials would proceed to an orderly conclusion, far from certain that life imprisonment would be the severest penalty meted out to the ex-leaders of France. In 1871, after France's previous defeat, Frenchmen vented their feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between...
This week, with ceremony and speeches, Noguchi's big piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...
...Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
...mustached charm of Gramercy Park's Players. Its keynote is breezy good-fellowship-a slangy, vulgar love of life that has appealed, not only to pinochle-playing actors in loud check suits, but also to such men as Richard Harding Davis, Joseph Jefferson, Barney Baruch, Father Duffy, George Ade, Ring Lardner, John Philip Sousa, Stanford White, Victor Herbert...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays...