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...Australia disgusted with Theodore, Scullin & Co.? Believing that she may be, Opposition Leader John Greig Latham (Nationalist) took a drastic step last week. He resigned, handed over leadership to a politician of broader popularity, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, former Acting Treasurer of Australia. He, by attracting to the Nationalist cause waverers and independents, may be able to roll up a vote that will unseat Labor...
...usual habiliments-morning coat, striped trousers, buttonhole gardenia- Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York City's official greeter and onetime police commissioner, stepped out on a cinema set in Los Angeles. .So much did he resemble an extra actor made up for the play in progress that an assistant director gave him a push, bellowing: "Come on, get a move on!" When Mr. Whalen protested politely, the assistant director roared: "Don't gee fresh with me!" Grover Aloysius Whalen extricated himself from this embarrassing situation by producing his calling card...
...bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script was rewritten endlessly. But last week...
...help a drive to get Manhattan women to knit warm clothing for the unemployed and their wives & children, Grover Aloysius Whalen cried: "If I could knit, I'd be making a master sweater for some little three-year-old girl right this minute...
...Holiness the Pope last week swelled the ranks of the Knights of Malta by the appointment of 14 Americans, some of them famed. The knighted: President Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Commercial Cable Co.; President John Jeremiah Pelley of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central System; Lawyer Jack Johnson Spalding of Atlanta, Ga.; Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee Angus Daniel McDonald of Southern Pacific Co.; Banker Joseph Henry O'Neil of Boston; Banker Elisha Walker of Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling...