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...catching art collection. With the zoo the Commissioner was doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25,000 in good taxpayers' cash for "old masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough...
...announced for Wednesday 19, January. The largest will be that given for the Roman Catholic chaplains at the Copley Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Military Ordinary of New York. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar, and Bishops John O'Hara, C. S. C., and William T. McCall C. SS. R., Military Delegates, will be present. The contingent of chaplains will be led by Chaplain William D. Clark, Commandant of the School...
...earn her living on the Brooklyn Eagle as an illustrator and reporter. For the New York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...
Highest Crossley-rated Mrs. Know-it-all is a short, voluble bit of human voltage named Bessie Beatty,* a onetime San Francisco newspaper reporter, writer for women's magazines and editor of McCall's. From rough notes, busy Bessie ad libs over Mutual's WOR (11:15-12) on food, books, fashion, war news, people, places. Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners. Sometimes Bessie whips up half a program with prominent guest interviewees...
Adapted from a "McCall's" magazine-novel, "Penny Serenade" comes to the movie public with "for women only" stamped all over it. About the most inspiring scene in two hours of tortuous tear-jerking, is the sight of Cary Grant anxiously pacing the midnight floor with his sobbing baby...