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...these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing to take a dignified back seat as the flesh & blood emblem of a Constitutional Monarchy. Last week Greece's Dictator had made all arrangements for His Majesty to come...
...Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard is equally superb...
...altruistic, Sir Percy kidnaps deserving members of nobility on their way from dungeon to execution block. On business trips to France he disguises himself with a putty nose and the long skirts of a peasant crone. In London, visiting his tailor or attending prizefights, he behaves like an effeminate fop. The almost superhuman difficulties of his undertakings are increased for him by domestic troubles. He suspects his wife (Merle Oberon) of being sympathetic to the new regime in Paris...
Last week Bucharest's royal fop played the King more boldly than British George V (who despises him) would ever dare to do. In brief the Cabinet of peasant-born Premier Juliu Maniu "advised" His Majesty to dismiss from their jobs two of his special favorites, Col. Marinescu, Chief of Bucharest Police, and General Dumitrescu, Chief of Rumania's Gendarmerie. Instead of taking his Cabinet's advice, as George V would be bound to do, Carol II took his stand on Rumania's old-fashioned Constitution which gives the King broad powers, defied Premier Maniu...
...Larry Fay, 44, Manhattan racketeer; of two bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...