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...Venice where on the fashionable Lido Beach they entertained the former Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their feet to roar Viva...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind his façade of New Life Movement broadcasting was to sound out the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thoroughly as to whether or not in 1937 Nanking should end its ten-year tiff with the Soviets and team up with Moscow once more, this time for aid in a Chinese war with Japan...
Coaxed into posing together at the Miami Biltmore Hotel were George Ade, 71, oldtime Indiana humorist, lately recuperated from a lung infection, and Annette Kellerman, 49. oldtime exhibition natator. scheduled for a Miami exhibition next month. Mr. Ade. as quoted by Miami publicity men: "This is the first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson...
...George Higgins Moses. Conceived in 1916 as a joke by Chicago Lumberman-Banker George William Dulany Jr., the Society has accumulated 30,000 members whose names include George, has cost its founder $6,000. Fellow-officers of Georgia's George are Vice President George Arliss, Poet Laureate George Ade, Lyricist George M. Cohan, Steward King George II of Greece, Sergeant at Arms George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, Patron Saints George Washington & George Dewey...