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...week ahead of time, 12,000 Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...
...Mudlark (20th Century-Fox), based on Theodore Bonnet's 1949 bestseller, embroiders the legend of the slum waif whose naive devotion to the Crown coaxed Queen Victoria out of a 15-year solitude and awakened Parliament to its social responsibilities. Produced in England by U.S. moviemakers, the picture drew some British sniping, even before the cameras turned, for its casting of Irene Dunne as the Queen. The sniping was resumed when the film was picked as Britain's Command Performance movie in November...
...Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely...
...mayor of Albany proclaimed a "Grandma Moses Day" last week, and the famed little upstate New York artist bustled in from Eagle Bridge, 30 miles away, to help celebrate it. Wearing a perky black jersey bonnet with a velvet chin strap, and a corsage of sweetheart roses presented by her three-year-old great-granddaughter, Grandma accepted the keys of the city. Then she went on to grace the opening of a show of 60 of her paintings at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Some 600 people milled through the gallery, gaping at the artist and at such...
...edited paste-up of old newsreels recalls the fevers and foibles of the generation that lived on Florida booms, hip flasks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Charleston, and the out-of-sight spiral of a rocketing stock market. Its faces range from the ludicrous (Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet) to the complacent (Jimmy Walker in a ticker-tape parade) to the evil (the pudgy, bland-eyed look of a paretic Al Capone...