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...unblushing practice of "month counting" was indulged in last week by Mayfair socialites, who recalled that the Duke of Kent was married on Nov. 29, 1934, after the following discreet announcement was made at No. 3 Belgrave Square: "The Duchess of Kent has cancelled her forthcoming engagements and is not undertaking any further functions this summer...
...Twenty-one-year-old Katherine Stammers, No. 3 British woman tennist: the semi-finals of the Kent Championship, defeating 28-year-old Helen Wills Moody 6-0, 6-4. First player ever to win a love set from longtime Champion Moody, in retirement since 1933, Miss Stammers graciously attributed her victory to the fact that Mrs. Moody "wasn't anywhere near her top." Next day Miss Stammers lost to England's No. 1. Dorothy Round. Unaltered was Mrs. Moody's plan for a comeback at Wimbledon next week...
...liveliest of the producing units whose pictures United Artists distributes (TIME, March 18). All but credulous Florida boosters supposed that his real purpose was to help the industry scare the California Legislature out of passing a proposed 35% income-tax bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida put up $10,000,000 by popular subscription to build moving picture studios. Last week Presidents Schenck and Kent revealed what they really had talked about by issuing a joint statement which said that plans had been completed...
Producer Schenck, who resigned last week as president of United Artists, will become chairman of the board for Fox, where Kent will remain as president. Twentieth Century will move from the United Artists lot at Hollywood to the enormous Fox studio at Fox Hills. Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, who has proved his lively and eccentric skill as a producer by such films as Les Miserables, Cardinal Richelieu, Clive of India, The Affairs of Cellini, The House of Rothschild, will become a Fox vice president. The combined companies will together produce a minimum of 55 pictures a year...
...ablest jazz pianist in the British royal family is H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, known in the giddier portions of Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with...