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...lately his country's cinematic Boy Friend. The ingénue is a tall blond named June Knight. Bert Lahr, whose large following is convulsed by his funny faces and mispronunciations, is the comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr does not carry. Last week she inspired Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer owns the Ziegfeld Theatre, to strike off a memorable simile. Wrote Mr. Brisbane: "Thirty 'glorified...
...Pluribus Chinam. Chaos and disorder are "normalcy" to China. There was a trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances...
...widow's mite was the $10,000,000 which Manhattan's Edward Stephen Harkness gave to British charity (TIME, Oct. 6. 1930). This gift caused George V and Queen Mary to receive Mr. and Mrs. Harkness tête-a-tête (TIME, June 22). Last week at a luncheon in the Great Giver's honor Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England...
...Lang is the sort of man who would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...