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Wrote Paramount's hardworking, socialite Arthur Menken-son of famed and dressy Manhattan matron Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken-in a chatty letter received by his Manhattan chiefs last week: "The first few bombs went wide of the mark, splashing into ponds between the power house and the hotel, too close for comfort but . . . very nice for pictures. The following planes came in with greater accuracy and dropped three eggs directly on the structure itself. . . . During this attack . . . the Chinese anti-aircraft with, I believe, .50 calibre machine guns brought down a plane directly in front of the building...
...statues, a torso and a so-called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...
Playwright Crothers pays most of her attention to Susan, a skittish matron who has barged in on drawing-room Buchmanism abroad, and has returned to bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...
...title of the head nurse has been changed from "Matron" to "Superintendent of Stillman Infirmary...
...Henry Howard, socialite matron of Newport, R. I., and a good sailor, was happy last week in the knowledge that many an American sailor would be thumbing a pocket-sized blue book compiled under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50? to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a valuable department called Caution. Samples...