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...Senorita Natalia Calles, daughter of President Plutarco Elias Calles is a devout Roman Catholic. So is her dashing sister, Ernestine (TIME, July 26). So is their mother. But President Calles has said: "No influence, national or international, including the grunts of the Pope, will cause the [Mexican] Government to vary its attitude [toward suppressing the Catholic clergy...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...
...have told Natalia that if she writes another novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...