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...Born year and a half ago in the Manhattan hardware store of British-born William George Lemmon, where the household help of rich metropolitan families buy supplies and exchange gossip, Staff has grown from a leaflet to a 24-page illustrated monthly magazine. It reaches the pantries of 5,000 big U. S. homes...
...biography of Puccini, to date, is that of Austrian Critic Richard Specht, which appeared in an English translation five years ago (Alfred Knopf). To it was added last week a genial book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...
Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick...
...never been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...