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...palace King Prajad-hipok stopped at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (where he had served his novitiate as a monk before his coronation) to worship his six royal ancestors while yellow-robed priests spun prayer wheels. From the palace jovial Prince Svasti, the King's father-in-law (who smokes fat cigarets) issued a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Opened Eyes | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Under emerald lights in Omaha's Coliseum was held the Coronation Ball, chief social event of the celebration. Crowned 37th King of Ak-Sar-Ben was ruddy, blue-eyed, Austrian-born George Brandeis, president of J. L. Brandeis & Sons, head of Brandeis Investment Co., director of Omaha National Bank. A leader of the Ak-Sar-Ben organization, he is 53 years old, has lived in Omaha 18 years. He wore a Louis XIV costume. His queen was Miss Lida Whitmore, 22-year-old daughter of Jesse Dwight Whitmore, farmer and livestock feeder of Valley, Neb. Nine thousand spectators packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Kings & Queens | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Sued. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), widow of Enrico Caruso; by Dorothy Russell Calvit. daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell Moore. Mrs. Calvit claimed Mrs. Caruso had a $50,000 diamond & emerald ring of her mother's which the actress entrusted to her husband, the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain. New York State Supreme Court Justice McGeehan instructed Mrs. Caruso to show cause why she should not answer questions concerning the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...glare, 1,727 contestants sooted their sights with candles, tightened their slings, commenced firing at 5:50 a. m. over glistening grass. When the last shot cracked out, split the target, was marked by the pitmen and valued by the statistical officer, the winner became known. He was Lieut. Emerald F. Sloan, 30, of the Infantry Barracks at Vancouver, Wash. Lieut. Sloan, never before a sensation in his two years of national competition, came up from behind to make a score of 97 out of a possible 100 on the long range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pot Shots at Perry | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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