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...gimmes.' Today they want Alexandretta, tomorrow it will be the oil fields of Mosul. The prairie fire of covetousness is spreading." ¶ After furious bickering for 90 minutes between Red Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, comparatively inexperienced in League ways, and that voluble Geneva veteran Dr. Augustin Edwards of Chile, the latter lost his point. This was to get on the agenda of the Council for discussion his demand that 6,000 Spanish Whites who have taken refuge in Madrid in the embassies and legations shall not be butchered by the Reds upon emerging but permitted...
...Chilean Delegate Dr. Augustin Edwards told a story involving "a former Shah" and his 300 wives...
...best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...
...oldtime Broadway producer is 73-year-old William Augustin Brady, father of Actress Alice Brady, husband of Actress Grace George. In a Saturday Evening Post reminiscence last spring, Mr. Brady remarked, apropos topical productions: "A showman often has to stick pretty close to the news to get the most out of his public." While summering at Lakewood, Maine, Showman Brady has lately been sticking close to the financial news-so close that last week he was in it. On this occasion he was concerned with getting the most out of his stock rather than his public...
...precedence down the list of States, the reason being the absence of U. S. Ambassdor Robert Worth Bingham, who was also absent at the funeral of King George and is still vacationing in the U. S. There was but one U. S. presentee outside the diplomatic circle: Mr. Caesar Augustin Grasselli.* Seated on a glittering throne, the new Sovereign received in all approximately 1,000 men-including the envoys of the Great Powers now bickering over the Rhineland Crisis (see p. 24)-in the record average time of 3½ seconds each...