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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built...
...disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan's famed funclub Casino de Paree was Jeanette McCully, known to patrons as the Girl in the Fish Bowl, In the intermissions of the Casino floor show Miss McCully slipped off her dancing costume, seated herself on a seashell chair in a cubicle off the bar, with a silken "seaweed" laprobe over her knees...
That this de-uniforming of his young visitors deeply offended Pope Pius appeared last week in the Vatican's official organ, Osservatore Romano, expressing "pained disgust" at the fact that Germans who had "spent a few days in the residence of a sovereign with whom the Reich is in relations of friendship, should be punished as if they had committed a sin. . . . Christ also received a rope when He was arrested, questioned, attacked and mocked because He was accused of having indulged in politics after a pilgrimage of love and redemption...
Last week when the case was completed the judge instructed the jurors to bring in a verdict of guilty only if they were sure the defendants had consented to the alleged misrepresentations. The jury de liberated less than five hours, then found Frank Parish "Not Guilty...
...middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." Safe back in France after his fiasco, Prince Charlie became a young-man-about-Paris. Author Mackenzie says that Charles, like his ancestress Mary. Queen of Scots, was "essentially cold sexually," but women liked him nevertheless. His liaison with Mme de Talmond was largely a political move, but he and Clementina Walkinshaw were lovers from the time they first met; she bore him a daughter, Charlotte, the only child he ever had. Why she left him remains something of a mystery. Though she wrote and asked his forgiveness Charles never...