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...Duchess of Windsor loves royal ado of all kinds. Last week the Duke bought her a truly royal present-one of the eleven Norwegian platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust will be unveiled next month. Biarritz's mayor explained...
...Hudson sent him into the fertile, feudal Rio Grande Valley to run three newspapers, the Brownsville Herald, Valley Star (at Harlingen) and Monitor (at Me Allen). When he gave nationwide publicity to a King Ranch mystery, the famed Blanton case (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), South Texas thought Magee would "bust the Valley wide open." But soon he turned to more prosaic crusades in which his backer was interested: stabilization of the $125,000,000 citrus industry, improvement of the water supply. He became a worker for the Methodist Church...
...what The Mikado loses on the roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
...Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man tradition...
...effort is reminiscent of the gentleman who, observing Apollo's Hyperborean journey, declared emphatically, "I shall compass this in terms of Quately's logic, or bust." He bust...