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...Waldorf Astor, chipper young heir of Viscount Astor. During the campaign Hon. Bill would pop up through the sliding roof of his little sedan, harangue constituents, then pop down and off to the next gathering. He scored an outstanding win from a previously strong Labor candidate. Last week potent Clan Astor was overjoyed when Hon. Bill was picked by Sir Samuel Hoare to be Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord, this sort of job under a minister with a future being the surest leg up in Britain to swift promotion for a smart young politician. Reputedly Hon. Bill attracted...
...many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy...
Both pictures at the University this week are fairly riotous, although the feature number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy...
...this play Mr. Cohan is the "Dear Old Darling," of course, but what that title really means is "Dear Old Dupe." The precedent of "Kind Lady" is carried on, and the entire plot of the present production is concerned with the machinations of a slippery clan of genteel racketeers. For the first three of the five scenes, however, the craft is coverered by the show, and the flattering challenge is issued to discern the infernal workings under the velvet cloth...
...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...