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From both coasts came hostile editorial comment on the Mayoral junket. "In the country as a whole," observed the New York Herald Tribune, "there will be many to hope that His Honor will succeed in his mission; but it is a sad commentary on American justice that the freedom of anyone should hinge on a 'stunt...
...secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil his life, there occurs the scene in which Elissa Landi, imprisoned...
...Commissioner of Sanitation, ordered him to "Europe for "rest." As a by-product of the trip, the Mayor and his Commissioner would inspect foreign garbage plants, get pointers to improve the New York system. Together they sailed on the Bremen Aug. 3. Soon began a typical Walker "rest" junket-a series of wisecracks, banquets, beer parties, clothes, flowery speeches, songs, night clubs and general gaiety which completely eclipsed the efforts of the other 21 mayors to have...
...stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George...
Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to Paris from a brief Russian junket. Said he: "The people in the streets all walk quickly with grave, preoccupied faces; they do not smile. If they bump into each other they do not apologize. ... In Moscow the Opera is magnificent. . . . Every department is perfect. ... It alone seems to have escaped from politics, for the repertoire is the same as before the War. Children's theatres, which receive special government attention, are nothing but propaganda centres. In one I saw what were represented as aristocratic Red Cross nurses refusing to give common...