Word: comus
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...April issue of Picture, due on newsstands last week, did not appear. Of the Comus' crew of monthly picture magazines which have appeared in the last two years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...
Meantime, a bartender was stabbed, 75 other of the city's half-million celebrants injured themselves in fights, falls, wrecks. And while householders and servants were racketing around the downtown streets during the pageants of Proteus, Rex & Comus, a platoon of sneak thieves took the opportunity to raid the residential district...
...King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls. "Coco," 21, swims, golfs, rides, likes best to race sailboats. She was a favorite of the Hoovers, who sent flowers from the White House when she graduated from Miss McGehee's School of New Orleans. In 1933 she was sent...
...notable items on display are: copies of the second, third and fourth editions of the folio, with the fourth edition in its original binding; a folio edition, 1647, of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, a volume belonging originally to the Earl of Bridgewater, elder brother to Milton's Comus; a copy of a 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn...
...falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back...