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...Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
...lands is not surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight one Chester Burger, 11, of Brooklyn, N. Y. wrote to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th President of the U. S., requesting her autograph, praising "your cousin," the Democratic presidential nominee. Replied the Widow Roosevelt: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a distant [fifth] cousin of my husband. I am a Republican and voting for Herbert Hoover." Last week Widow Roosevelt at her summer home in Brooklyn, Conn, revealed that some 300 U. S. persons had written...
...time she arranges a combination swindle and blackmail scheme against the town banker. When she goes back to the penitentiary to save her daughter from the gangster, she does it with a calloused resignation that makes her less the mother than the moll. Good scene: Alison Skipworth showing her autograph album with the two entries: "Prosperity, Herb" (says she: "That was before he was elected") and "'India Is Yours, Gandhi...
...Autograph collectors and newspaper men flocked around the box of Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly" Curtis) Gann. She had suddenly become the heroine of the convention through her brother's victory...
...Foundation. Book sales were proceeding briskly and Novelist Farrère's wife Henriette had just succeeded in selling a third book by her husband to the brawny Russian in dark glasses who loitered beside the Farrère book booth, asking repeatedly: "Of course your husband will autograph these books for me when he comes...