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...swathed in a blue duster, booted high, gauntleted to her elbows. Proud Marie of Roumania gazed with approval upon the first and as yet the only made-in-Roumania locomotive. Mounting into the cab, she encouraged King Ferdinand and Premier Averescu to follow her. Tutored by a grimy minion, she opened the throttle, piloted the locomotive three miles in four minutes...
GLASS HOUSES?Eleanor Gizycka?Minion, Balch ($2). Senators have fun. Particularly the big he-ones from unshackled western states. This book leaves no doubt of it. They are pursued even in their grave assembly room by panting Washington women with devastating toilets and merciless divan technique. Second only to senators in desirability are titled young attaches at the embassies. For one of these a Washington flapper will do unvirtuously anything...
...dances many a minion of the college...
Besides Mr. Dix and Miss Wilson, especially good work is done by Edna May Oliver, the sorrowful comedienne, who does the out-of-town hymn book buyer in search of a thrill to perfection; and "Gunboat" Smith, who, as the minion of the law, proves that the cauliflower industry is sometimes capable of producing something besides real estate agents...
...QUEEN OF COOKS-AND SOME KINGS- Recorded by Mary Lawton- Boni, Liveright ($3.00). Lord Northcliffe and ''heaps of others" long pestered Cook Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel, London, for her "story." Now it is told, in her own saucy words, to a honey-tongued minion of The Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated...