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...deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing police. In 1934 he staggered Britain's bluebloods by declaring from his seat in the House of Lords: "This House...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...
...make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...
...second feature on the bill, "Spend thrift," although not much to speak of, at least does not pretend to be serious. It is the crude isle of a designing woman marrying a dumb aristocrat for money. However, Henry Fonda and George Barber with a great many really funny wise cracks, and their humorous gyrations make for ridiculous coincidence. There is more honest enjoyment in "Spendthrift" than "To Mary With Love...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...