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Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...
...evening last week, a small, elegantly groomed man with thinning black hair, a limp, and the smile of a tired elf, took a party of friends to see the new Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate. The show is such a smash hit that ordinary playgoers find it impossible to get seats for any performance sooner than next April. Seats are just a little harder to get because this one satisfied customer has been buying up so many of them. At a cost of more than $1,000, Cole Porter, who wrote the music and lyrics for Kiss Me, Kate, took...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...
...perfect mannequin's figure, the face of a pleasant elf, meticulousness, good taste, brains, and that French sauce of spirit that explains why Paris can remain, even in wartime, the world's style centre -these qualities combine to make Eve Curie, the 35-year-old daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, a woman whose changes of dress or hairdo sometimes swing whole fashions. Last week Eve Curie wrote in Vogue about what happens to fashions in the face of tragedy...
Siam's eleven-year-old King, elf-faced Ananda Mahidol, last week got his first practical benefit from his kingship since his Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated last month (TIME, March 11). In the excitement of his ascension to the throne, Ananda, heretofore high in his classes in the Swiss school at Lausanne, which he has been attending, has fallen a little behind. Last week came examinations. A word from His Majesty was sufficient. Thereupon Queen Mother Songkla petitioned the Lausanne director of schools to excuse Ananda from taking the examination. The Siamese Legation in Switzerland repeated the request. Last week...