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...Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized...
...Cleveland Orchestra with whom she worked out scenarios to several symphonic works. They amounted, in essence, to informal ballets in which the dancing was of the free interpretative kind, full of exaggerated, supposedly primitive poses and vigorous prancing. Audiences have received them in a state of self-conscious hush. Irene Lewisohn and her stage versions of music appeared to have found highest recognition when Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above...
...Allan, home from Harvard Business School, officiated in the distribution of presents and gimcracks from a huge star-topped tree. Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...pugilist wanders around wanting to "take a sock" at someone. "Just one sock!" he pleads. And then there is an unfortunate suicide. Miss Moran is distressed at what her father's constituency may think. Mr. Kerr is distressed at what his family will think. Miss Dale sees her hush money slipping away from...
...side issue of the Mixed Claims Commission's labors last week concerned the late, great Lord Kitchener. Lawyer Bonynge, apropos nothing in particular, fished out his portfolio of German confessions one made by a certain Fred Hermann. This alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...