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Died. Gretchen von Briesen (Mrs. Salomon Stanwood) Menken, 58, most overdressed woman in Manhattan cafe society; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Nearly every year, since 1924, Mrs. Menken dazzled the Beaux-Arts Ball with her costumes. As "Rain," she carried a set of batteries beneath her skirt to light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World...
...Chinese war by U. S. newsmen and photographers has been exceptionally good. Hearst News of the Day's H. S. Wong; Universal's George Krainukov, MARCH OF TIME's Harrison Forman's bombing pictures of Shanghai were extraordinary, as were the reels taken by Arthur Menken of the announced bombing of Nanking two months ago. Last week reckless Cameraman Menken stayed behind in Nanking to film the Japanese occupation. His films were seized and then returned by Japanese officers. A. T. ("Arch") Steele of the Chicago Daily News filed a story on the city...
...certain London churches which he said are obliged to pay people to attend worship. He delved in the mysteries of non-Christian worship, had Parsees, Chinese, Amerindians conduct their rituals in his church. He invited people like Dancers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis, Poet Amy Lowell, Actresses Helen Menken and Eva Le Gallienne, Astrologist Evangeline Adams, to speak at afternoon or evening services. But when, on St. Nicholas Eve in 1923, Dr. Guthrie had six bare-legged but amply-clad Barnard College girls perform eurythmic dances in St. Marks, austere Bishop Manning blew up. He cut off St. Marks...
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...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...