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Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...second constitutional election in decades, tall, massive General Isaias Medina Angarita, 43, Minister for War, was picked for President by the Venezuelan Congress over Rómulo Gallegos Freire, Minister of Education. With a five-year term in prospect, General Medina, to celebrate, married Señorita Irma Feliola in a modest ceremony at Caracas, five days before his inauguration this week...
...George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...
Poor New York City children, 150 at a time, go to Irvington House' on the Hudson River, founded by Mrs. Irma B. Levy of Manhattan. It is the biggest establishment of its kind in the country. Some 3,000 children have already recuperated there, and left their medical records. It was to help raise $75,000 which Mrs. Levy needs to keep Irvington House going full tilt that Dr. Cohn last week made his gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have...
...evening Their Majesties, though it had been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several...