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...Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
Cabled Raja Brooke in reply, ''QUITE OK ELIZA PROVIDED NO PUBLICITY OR NEWSPAPER EXCITEMENT LOVE VYNER...
...simultaneously celebrated his tenth year's attendance at the spa, the eighth annual trustees' meeting and Thanksgiving by presiding at a turkey dinner for all resident patients. He & wife sat at the head of the head table with 13 crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian baritone was heard joining in with the rest of the happy group...
...born in West Point in 1843, christened Eliza Wyche Hitchcock, which she soon changed to Lily for euphony. Her father, a doctor, followed the Gold Rush with the high title of "Medical Director of the Pacific Coast." Lily, aged 7, sailed around the Horn with her parents. Her first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...
...Busch Quartet was in the U. S. for the sixth Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington, under the auspices of the $500,000 Eliza beth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. Currently in the U. S., with few engagements to fill, are such top-notch quartets as the Musical Art, New York, Gordon, Roth. But Mrs. Coolidge is earnestly devoted not only to the highest music but to "international exchange of culture." Last week's Festival featured uncommon-run composers like Cimarosa (The Secret Marriage, sung by Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music). Schonberg, Paul Hindemith...