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...Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner who arrived in Hollywood five months ago with $100 in his pocket, half of which he gave to the orchestra leader in the Biltmore Bowl...
Manhattan's No. 1 eye doctor is owlish John Martin Wheeler, 55. In his 30-year career Dr. Wheeler has removed some 1,000 bad eyes from some 1,000 good patients. He pops cataracts out of eyeballs, puts popeyes back where they belong, patches eyelids, makes eyelashes out of eyebrows. His most famed patient but by no means his best paying was King Prajadhipok of Siam (see p. 24) who gave him something less than $25,000 for squeezing a cataract out of the royal left eye. Last week Dr. Wheeler went to his own Eye Institute...
With easy, informal Rooseveltian technique, Mr. Davis dropped his naval depth bomb at a luncheon tendered him by U. S. correspondents. The situation was simple enough. In Tokyo, as everyone knew, the Son of Heaven had pored through his owlish tortoise-shell glasses over the draft text of Japan's denunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty last week and, finding this denunciation good, had sent it to the Privy Council. Only a miracle could stop Japan from scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio and starting a naval race. No miracle man, Ambassador Davis contented himself with a speech well calculated...
...unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva...
When President Roosevelt found that Ambassador Dodd's first and second calls had produced not even a reply he took what Germans last week regarded as the "unprecedented" step of summoning to the White House owlish German Ambassador Dr. Hans Luther. On his departure bald Dr. Luther pinked hotly when he discovered that correspondents knew what the President had called him on the carpet about...