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...President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath, the babe was swathed in a kimono of heavy white silk, the gift of Dowager Empress Sadako, most revered female in Japan. Only then was he ready to be named...
...saying "How do you do?" like Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greeted familiars by their first names, caught from aides and unerringly repeated such names as "Accioly," "Hsia," "Zaldumbide," "Garreau-Dombasle." After China's Minister and Mme Sao-ke Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires and Mrs. Boris E. Skvirsky (gold satin...
Down the path from her bungalow one day last week skipped Bride Susie wearing a kimono. Groom and preacher, naked, came up another path merrily singing to other colonists, "Won't you come and join us?" A young painter with a Van Dyke beard and some young women in slippers answered their call. So did others less adorned. Cheerfully the witnesses ranged themselves around. Susie slipped off her kimono but kept hold of her bouquet. Preacher Irvine mounted a box. Bride & groom exchanged their vows in the sight of Nature and a camera...
Madame Butterfly (Paramount). Because Sylvia Sidney has almond-shaped eyes it was inevitable that one day she would be given a kimono and a mop of black hair on top of her head, taught to walk with mincing steps, compelled to use the adjective "velly" in a squeaky treble. She does it all as prettily as could be expected in Madame Butterfly, expensively handled as an individual production by Paramount's onetime production chief, Benjamin Percival Schulberg...
Last week the petite Baroness was in Manhattan to study best U. S. birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...