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Born Katharine Marjory Ramsay, the Duchess of Atholl, musician and lawn tennist, has been a Member of Parliament since 1923. Among her accomplishments are the organization of the Perthshire District Nurse Associations; the composition, for pianoforte, of Song-Flowers from A Child's Garden of Verses; and the assemblage, at the suggestion of Lord Kitchener, of the world's finest collection of Scottish soldiers' stocking tops. In 1899 Katharine Marjory Ramsay married the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of all the Murrays, colonel-in-chief of the Scottish Horse Scouts, a gallant soldier and the owner...
...obscurely identified. That is the handicap imposed upon her by the script. Furthermore, she is not very handsome. Thus for both artificial and natural reasons, Miss Bergner has great obstacles between herself and convincing her public that she can win and hold securely the affection of an immoral English musician. But she succeeds eminently, and explains clearly how she won an Academy award last year for this performance...
Died. Abraham ("Abe") Ruef, 71, onetime (1901-07) "Curly Boss" of San Francisco; in San Francisco. From police court lawyer, he rose to head the Union Labor Party, secured the election of a popular musician as mayor, established headquarters in a French restaurant, "The Pup," where he blandly collected huge honoraria from those wanting special privilege. Confronted by evidence, Ruef fled, was caught, finally convicted of bribery. Paroled in 1915 from San Quentin, where he taught Bible classes, he entered real estate, piled up a comfortable legal fortune...
Though the Philharmonic directors had chosen a musician of outstanding ability, their announcement had instant and stormy repercussions. Some recalled the speech Herr Furtwängler made in Berlin four years ago when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "pet puppies which one keeps without inner necessity." Others pronounced him a slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State...
...short while ago Harvard University for the second time rejected an offer of a German scholarship from Ernst Hanfstaengl, or "Putzy" as the Columbia Spectator prefers to call the Nazi Press Chief, who has become renowned as the musician who soothes the worried Hitler to sleep...