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Life is getting harder for the chorus girl. Last week Florenz Ziegfeld issued a general order (by telegraph, as is his custom) to omit Imogene Wilson from further performances of his current Follies. And all because she got herself in the newspapers for an alleged punch in the eye at the hand of Frank Tinney, piebald comedian...
...Lord Astor is portrayed sitting in the gallery. Is it not very unfair to leave out the children from this apotheosis of the House of Astor? They would have been just as much interested as their father. The American Ambassador also beams on the scene-alone. Why omit the rest of the diplomatic corps?" At her home in Plymouth, Lady Astor, formerly Nancy Langhorne, made the following statment: "It is a matter of indifference to me whether they decide to keep my portrait in Parliament or not. I did not ask that it be put there. My husband consulted with...
VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE?by the Editors of Vogue?Condé Nast ($4.00). No doubt we have improved somewhat since the days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their...
...Grand Guignol occupies a unique niche in the theatrical world; faithful followers of the drama can hardly omit it from their agenda and retain the while their self-respect. For the casual amusement seeker the entertainment is only mildly recommended. Particularly if his linguistic equipment is limited to "oui" and "Zelli...
...mark offer. not long ago Lord Curzon was reported to have named forty billion gold marks as a starting point for conversations. And already advance notices of a new French statement of a most promising nature are filtering out. It is said that Premier Poincare's new bill will omit pension charges, will not require the Class C bonds unless her allies press their debt charges too hard, and therefore will reduce the total reparation charge to fifty billion gold marks. This is no more than enough to repair the damage which Germany herself caused in the war. No German...