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...taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between him and the title except Scotland's stylish Hector Thomson...
Fred Astaire for her, she does all her dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy...
...rank high enough to decide anything important. Chief of the British Naval Staff is Admiral Sir Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield. He stayed at home last week. Britain's Army had last week a new Chief of the Imperial General Staff in handsome, close-mouthed General Sir Cyril John Deverell, who lately succeeded Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. So far as the public knew, General Deverell took no part in the conference. Neither did Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Emile Van Den Berghe of Belgium, nor Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin of France...
Died. Grand Duchess Feodorovna, 59, wife of Grand Duke Cyril-Vladimirovich. self-proclaimed Emperor of all the Russias; of an apoplectic stroke; in Munich...
Having heard the jury's verdict of guilty, Justice Sir Cyril Atkinson turned to the fallen financiers and said: "You were in great positions. Great positions carry great responsibilities. I should be failing in my duty if I did not punish you." Thereupon he sentenced Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson to one year of imprisonment without hard labor. That was the same sentence passed upon mighty Lord Kylsant in 1931 in the same court house for the same offence in connection with a scandalous Royal Mail Steam Packet prospectus. The third pepper man received nine months. All appealed...