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...extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming the Liberals for everything from unemployment to an attempt to assassinate him, Camillien Houde. He had one cureall: Government loans at 2% to Quebec farmers. Canadians flocked to listen to him. Impressed editors prophesied that if he did not win the election he would pare the Liberal majority to a sliver. Quebec's performance at the polls last week only proved again that listening to inflammatory speeches and voting for candidates are two affairs. Liberal Taschereau won 79 out of 90 contested seats. Skyrocket Houde followed an old Canadian maneuver and ran for office...
...Married. Pare Lorentz, 30, cinema-critic of the New York Evening Journal and Judge; and Sally Bates, 23, actress (An American Tragedy; Sweet Adeline; Up Pops the Devil); in Oswego...
...recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player in the world till Tilden beat him 33 out of 37 matches last winter...
Lead team of The Band Wagon is, of course, the Astaires. Never has this versatile pair been set to better advantage. As two incorrigible Parisian children playing hoops in the Pare Monceau (perhaps the loveliest of Albert R. Johnson's settings) it is evident that the Astaires have come a long way since leaving their native Omaha. Neb. Future revues will have a hard time equalling The Band Wagon's beauty, charm, imagination...
...just as France was entering another, greater war, Gustave Dreyfus died in the house near the Pare Monceau where his pictures, his statues were kept. By French law his collection was divided among his son and three daughters, and though Dreyfus fils wished to keep the collection intact, his sisters preferred the money. For the past ten years dealers have been delicately led to understand that for a sufficient price, the Dreyfus collection was for sale. There was no lack of offers, but the Dreyfus family were not to be rushed into a sale. Only last week, before the potent...