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Scion of a long line of German-American brewmasters and brewery tycoons, young George Ehret has been studying singing in Florence for the past two years. Last week Italian police had him up in court along with Miss Grace Gunther, also a U. S. citizen, expatriated for 30 years in Florence. They were each accused of doing in a big way what most foreigners in Italy do in a small way: buying lire at cut rates from illegal black-bourse traders...
...indictment charged that Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther, working independently, went further, acted as commission men for numerous friends in the U. S. colony who wanted to trade dollars for lire below the State-established...
...example to other expatriates tempted to chisel with Italian exchange, the Fascist high court in Rome, from whose decision there is no appeal, walloped Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther with terrific penalties. She got six years in jail and a fine of half a million lire ($25,000 at the official, not the black-bourse, rate of exchange), he seven years and a fine of $15,000. The U. S. Embassy was represented at the trial by Third Secretary Walter C. Bowling and through him Miss Gunther and Mr. Ehret begged the U. S. State Department to intervene...
Engaged. Thomas George Paul ("Tommy") Farr, 24, heavyweight boxing champion of Great Britain; to Eileen Wenzel, 27, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who in 1936 won a $40,774 damage suit from Louis J. Ehret Jr., brewery heir, on the grounds that an automobile crash had "marred her beauty and lessened her prospects of a favorable marriage...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...