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...many have been misinformed by you (May 8, p. 66) how to pronounce "Juarez." It will be easier to get them on the right track if you will correct it before it grows any more, and after the boost you give the picture there is certain to be a lot of talk about it. There surely are many Spanish-speaking natives of these southern countries right there at Rockefeller Center who would gladly inform you it is not pronounced "Wha-race," but "Whar-s"-first syllable strongly aspirated, followed by only the faintest sound of s through front teeth...
...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
...lot of Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention...
Once the boast of Harlem, now just a strong link in the Broadway chain, the Cotton Club doops a lot of colored hotcha and horseplay. Though much of the old animal verve of Harlem has given way to routine Broadway showmanship, the show has winning headliners in Tapster Bill Robinson (see col. j) and Crooner Cab Galloway; a pleasant surprise in Hymn Swinger Sister Tharpe; plenty of jungle...
When last week's Derby was over, the bookmakers were a gloomy lot. Blue Peter had finished four lengths ahead of the field, had cost them more than $5,000,000. But there never was a more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grinned from ear to ear, told reporters that the silks his jockey wore in the race had belonged to his father, had been discovered in an old trunk during house-cleaning a few weeks before...