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Three years ago Milo Reno, Des Moines farmer-insurance man, made a national stir when his Farmers' Holiday Association began blockading Midwestern cities by barring produce trucks and trains. Since then, though his fame has waned, he still puts on a good show for his followers. Last year at their annual meeting in Des Moines he had Priest Coughlin as speaker. This year he invited Huey Long, Governor Olson of Minnesota. Governor Talmadge of Georgia and again Priest Coughlin. Had Mr. Reno got them all he would have had an all-star cast for a Third Party Follies...
...fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot: Venus de Milo experimenting with a pair of arms...
...York's Bishop William Thomas Manning is an austere sermonizer, not inclined to denounce the frivolities of Manhattan socialites who give money to his Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More of a pulpit moralist is the Bishop's right-hand man, the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates. Last week the chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles...
...MILO S. RYAN Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermot), 62, once famed as the most beauteous U. S. actress. Trained by Dion Boucicault, one of the numerous wives and leading ladies of Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan's Maxine Elliott Theatre, went...