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Characters. Of all Gubbins characters, Sally the Cat is perhaps best-liked. She is Winston Churchill's favorite. Currently she is being urged by Gubbins to marry The Ginger Cat of London's Maida Vale, a real animal who recently actually inherited ?4,000. Says Sally: "I will never marry for anything but love." Jeers Gubbins: "You've never married anybody at all yet, although you're the mother of 109 kittens." Other Gubbins creations...
...Maida Van Schuyler, who books shows for stag banquets, but "there isn't a dime left in this lousy business. . . . The moving pictures have spoiled it." So she is thinking of becoming a medium...
...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
...Church Assembly nevertheless put off action on the repealer until its next session. The Assembly did take action en another matter put over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical commissioners are getting out of bad leases, and that, according...
Communications: Narakachi Maida, formerly a director in the Department of Commerce...