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...young novelist of intellectual pretensions who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher. Jarnal Harvey, disappointed by sophisticated Frances, retires to his publisher's houseboat in Manhasset Bay. On the way he upsets his rowboat and is salvaged by beauteous Margot. They form a friendship which prospers. Puttering about the Bay, he meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal, kidnaps Harvey to his yacht where...
Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
Engaged. Julian Street, 51, writer (Rita Coventry, Mr. Bisbee's Princess, Cross-Sections) ; and Margot Andre (Marguerite Skibeness), dramatic technician...
...public went to see a momentous collection of Italian Renaissance paintings at Old Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 23). Notables had already swarmed through the galleries, among them the Philip Snowdens, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Austen Chamberlains (she sponsored the show), the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wellington, Margot Asquith. Mayfair booksellers announced an unprecedented sale of Italian art books. At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size...
Numerous other diversions were provided. Oldtime fiddlers had a contest, rasped out "Money Musk," "Soldier's Joy," "Leather Breeches." At the live stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate...