Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn, 70, gay blade; of shock following a tragic report that his daughter's foot had been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written...
Last year Philadelphia's pink and twinkly Music Publisher James Francis Cooke, whose Oliver Ditson Music Co. had turned many a penny publishing Songwriter Bland's bestseller, began to wonder who James A. Bland really was. In vain he consulted the heftiest musical encyclopedias. Even Ditson's...
> Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, 48, author-turned-lawyer, who styles himself in Who's Who as an "outstanding penologist and criminologist," announced in Paris he will run for the Senate next year as an anti-New Dealer against Florida's Senator Charles Oscar Andrews.
A mature, meaty picture, based on the novel Memory of Love, by veteran bucolic Bessie Breuer (wife of Muralist Henry Varnum Poor), In Name Only has its many knowing touches deftly underscored by Director John Cromwell, brought out by a smoothly functioning cast. No surprises are the easy ad-libbish...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett...