Word: afric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musicomedy about a Southern lass (Mayo Methot) whose ancestral mansion is sold for a gambling house. Needless to say, a comely Northerner (Alan Prior) eases her heart. Two of Composer Youman's best tunes, the lingering "Without A Song," the jubilant "Great Day," are magnificently reverberated by an Afric choir of 40 voices led by Mr. Lois Deppe. Other Youmans' melodies which will soon reach ballroom and loudspeaker: "Happy Because I'm In Love," "More Than You know," "Open Up Your Heart...
Lady Anne is convalescing from pneumonia. Reports of her illness and recovery are known to have been cabled in code to Edward of Wales throughout the course of his Afric Good Will Tour (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). Naturally the Marquis Douro continued, last week, his refusal either to confirm or to deny. But the fact of H. R. H.'s solicitude for Lady Anne was not disputed...
Conservative U. S. journals printed the story as a matter of minor, passing interest. New York's Daily News (tabloid) saw. however, a chance to coin a scurrility, headlined: "DeadEye Davy Bags Elephant in Afric Wilds...
Simultaneously Manhattan's Communist monthly, New Masses, printed a car toon flaying both H. R. H. and his Afric good-will tour (TIME, Sept...
Abyssinian Victory. Just two years ago it seemed that Italy and Britain were firmly leagued to assist each other in the joint commercial penetration of Abyssinia, backward Afric realm. Jointly the two great Powers brought pressure upon Regent Ras Taffari of Abyssinia to permit Italian exploitation of a railway and British construction of certain mighty water works for irrigating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Smart, the Abyssinian Regent yielded momentarily, but subsequently made to the League of Nations a squa.wk so potent that British public opinion turned against the exploitation scheme? leaving in the lurch Benito Mussolini...