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Barney Oldfield, oldtime auto racer, had a fight in Hollywood with "Prince" Mike Romanoff (Harry Gerguson), Hollywood restaurateur. Oldfield got a black eye. He said the argument started after Romanoff had tried to crowd him off the road. Romanoff declared that Oldfield had rushed up to him on the street, called him a "phony...
...Avenue of the Allies." ¶ At a Chicago war-plant rally, Dancer Juanita Rios sold the nylons off her shapely legs for $1,500 in bonds (see cut). In Greensboro, N.C., one pair of nylons brought $25,000 without benefit of legs. ¶ In Hollywood "Prince" Mike (Harry Gerguson) Romanoff, proprietor of a fashionable movie-colony restaurant, offered a free case of Scotch (any brand) to each $10,000 bond purchaser, sold a case at ceiling price to buyers of a $5,000 bond. Three days' take: $78,000. ¶ The New Mexico boy or girl who sold...
...Supremely unimportant" probabilities: born Harry F. Gerguson in 1890 in 1) Vilna, Russia, or 2) Hillsboro, Ill., or 3) Manhattan's lower East Side. † Other New World Habsburgs: Archduke Otto and youngest brother, Archduke Rodolphe in Washington; Mother Empress Zita and Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte in Quebec; Archduchesses Adelaide and Charlotte in New York City...
...Laeken castle near Brussels.... Gravely ill at Doorn was Germany's ex-Kaiser Wilhelm....Carol of Rumania plumped bag and baggage down in Havana at last, told 60 reporters and cameramen he was "a simple refugee." .... Finally legit picaresque Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson paid stockholders in his Beverly Hills eatery their first dividend: 18? on each $50 share...
...Hollywood Mike is a magnificent stooge in a place which can afford magnificent stooges. They laugh at his good-natured Oxonian pomposity, chuckle over his full assumed title, Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, never use his real name, Harry Gerguson...