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...yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took...
Died. Frank Lascelles, 58, sculptor, pageant director (Canadian tercentenary pageant, 1908; Coronation Durbar in Calcutta, 1912; British Empire Pageants, 1924); after long illness; in poverty; in Brighton, England...
...half hour before the party, cleared up just in time for Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Cox and other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...
Macrobiosian indeed is the "Delhi Durbar" which opens this year's circus. For large-scale panoply purposes the celebration which took place in Old Delhi, India, after crafty Prime Minister Disraeli secured for Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts...
Producer Carroll's tenth durbar is not a perpetual triumph, but it reaches zeniths of one sort and another. A young man named Keith Clark snatches six cigarets, a cigar and finally a pipe from the air, astounds spectators as thoroughly as does Cardini, "The Suave Deceiver" in RKO vaudeville with the same trick. At one point the chorus parades around a dark stage with long glass tubes of rare gases (neon, argon) exposing them to an electro-magnetic field from time to time so that they light up in weird pale colors (''first time...