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Britons heard that their Edward of Wales, whose Grandfather King Edward VII was an able conjuror, is studying to be a magician, has already learned how to conjure a handkerchief into a union jack. Said his tutor: "He is now trying to master the egg-&-bag trick...
...their 28th wedding anniversary President & Mrs. Roosevelt dined two dozen, mostly relatives. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, went down from Hyde Park for the party. As it was also St. Patrick's Day, the President wore a green silk handkerchief embroidered with "Happy Days," a green carnation in his lapel. He told friends his green tie was worn...
...John Barrymore's performance makes Topaze one of the most ingratiating comedies of the past year, as it is certainly the most cynical. Good shot: the Barrymore eyebrow's working above a handkerchief which conceals his mouth when Topaze has just downed his first cocktail, including the olive, in one gulp...
...battery on James Island. At the height of the bombardment Col. Wigfall commandeered a skiff and two Negroes, ordered them to row him to Fort Sumter. "He was wearing his red sash, his huge Texas spurs, and at regular intervals he would wave his bared sword with its pocket handkerchief flag, and send his enormous voice roaring toward the fort with a demand that it surrender." By some senatorial miracle Wigfall escaped annihilation, interviewed Sumter's commander, Anderson, made terms which Anderson took as official. Beauregard, embarrassed, annoyed, "very cheerfully" abided by them...
...uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...