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Melbourne, Australia's biggest city, is in Victoria, and last week Edmond John Hogan, Victoria's Labor Premier, was in London. A cablegram woke him in the middle of the night to tell him that he had just been kicked out of office by a no-confidence vote in the Legislature of 29-25. Oracles picked Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle, leader of the Opposition, to succeed...
...three best amateur 18.2 balkline billiard players live in Europe. Like billiard balls, two are light, one dark. The dark one, Edmond Soussa, 33, is the youngest. A full-blooded Egyptian, he was born in Cairo, now makes his living in Paris as an interior decorator. He plays a careless, temperamental game. Says he: "I hate billiards and play it only for my country...
...other parts of town, other galleries honored two of the U. S. drama's ablest decorators: tousle-haired Robert Edmond Jones at the Bourgeois Galleries, swart Jo Mielziner at Marie Sterner...
...excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins...
...second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week's exhibition was the fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also a facile, amusing, often brilliant draughts man. Robert Edmond Jones's completed sets are generally more effective than his sketches. Jo Mielziner's seldom are. In addition he has found time between building scale models, carpenter's blue prints, electricians' light plots, laying out color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches...