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...loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang. On a Sunday excursion to Brighton, she put a penny in a fortune-telling machine. The pink card she got told her her fate: A star danced, And you were born...
...Birds. In Brighton, England, Herbert Coles, charged with annoying girls in bathing suits by whistling at them, was released after he explained that he was only feeding sparrows, and produced a sack of bread to prove...
Forty-four percent of the Class of '52 will be graduated with honors. One senior. Natalie Rae Dosick of Brighton, will receive a bachelor of arts summa cum laude...
With security measures thus complete, the trial got under way. It was an action by a Brighton shopgirl named Diana Grace Rains-Bath against Russian-born U.S. Hypnotist Ralph Slater (real name Joseph Bolsky) for damage incurred during a music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed...
Also at the R.K.O. is an English thriller, The Young Scarface, that gives a rather accurate picture of England's seamy side. It traces the bloody path of a razor wielding cut-throat as he hacks his way from London's slums to Brighton Beach. DAVID C.D. ROGERS