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Hurrahs and huzzahs for such news items as the "Governor General's Junket," appearing in TIME, April 6! That trip certainly sounds good and gives one a yen to emulate Mr. Davis...
...White House then was a slim saucy miss called "Princess Alice" Roosevelt. Congressman Longworth met her, danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then popular tune, "I'd Leave My Happy Home...
...became known that before he left Buenos Aires, on his South American junket, with his brother, Prince George of England found his bedroom at the British Embassy ransacked. Personal jewelry of "considerable value" had been stolen. Police tracked down the thief, discovered him to be a prominent young Argentine, who had consorted with the Princes a great deal during their visit. His name was not divulged. The jewelry was recovered...
Onetime (1915-31) Republican Congressman Edward Everett Denison of Illinois was last week put on trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court for liquor possession. In December 1928 heavy-jowled Mr. Denison returned to New York from a junket to Panama. Under his freedom-of-the-port privilege he brought in much luggage without inspection. Several weeks later Prohibition agents visited his quarters in the House Office Building, found an Army locker trunk marked "B. B. Dawson." "E. D. Denison" might easily be altered to "B. B. Dawson," but Congressman Denison in- sisted the trunk...
Trader Horn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The longest, bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script...