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...which a man (Leslie Adams, the droll cuckold of Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet) plans...
...today: "Dolly Gann's Book," Doubleday-Doran, goes on sale today. It is the publisher's claim that Dolly Gann "tells all about the political and social life of Washington, not forgetting, the famous precedence war with Alice Long worth...
...With the 30 days of public mourning for Calvin Coolidge over. President Hoover last week resumed White House festivities. At a state dinner to the Vice President, he and Dolly Curtis Gann led the line to the table. Among the 75 guests were John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Edsel Bryant Ford. Two days later the President entertained 85 diplomats and guests who ate from gold service...
...Curtis was discovered as construction superintendent of N. P. Severin Construction Co. of Chicago, now building in Newark, N. J. a $2,744,900 post office, a story started to the effect that he was a brother of the Vice President and that Half-Sister Dolly Gann was largest Severin stockholder. Because Severin Co. averages two or three big post office contracts a year, rival contractors talked darkly of "Washington pull." Vice President Curtis indignantly denied that the superintendent at Newark was his relative "in any shape or form, near or distant" or that any of his family was interested...
...President of the U. S. never dines out privately in Washington. That is the Vice President's job. Mr. Curtis, with Dolly Gann on his arm, has performed this social duty with obvious relish. On an average of five nights a week during the season they are to be found dining with Cabinet members. Ambassadors, Supreme Court justices, Senators and Washington socialites. Vice President Curtis' method...