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Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...
Later, after Princess Alice married the dapper Ohioan, Nicholas Longworth, who became Speaker of the House, Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Longworth formed the friendship that is now said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson...
Infallibly dapper, invariably chipper, insistently funny, Mayor James John Walker of New York City completed the legend of insouciance abroad (TIME, Aug. 29 et seq.) and sailed from France for the U. S., with Mrs. Walker. But before he left he- ¶ Addressed the American Legion in Paris. "I am authorized by law and by chance," he said, "to bring you the felicitations of the people of New York and to carry across the Atlantic their heart throbs that they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
...Heart of Salome (Alma Rubens). How was dapper Monte Carrol, U. S. hero touring France, to realize that the entrancing Helene was not the sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian...