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...bangs and the bony knees, had suddenly become a King, and for a moment the most spotlighted person in the world. Before breakfast Peter II of Jugoslavia was hauled from his dormitory bed and brought down to the headmaster's office. His old tutor, a man named Parrott, was there too. The boy learned that his father had had a serious automobile accident, that he must go up to London at once. He packed the one brown suitcase that is supposed to be sufficient for Sandroyd boys, put on his belted overcoat and his school cap, got into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Little King | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...knew it! One just can't evade it. We mean all of the hullabaloo that has been raised during the past year or so. And Ursula Parrott has brought it all to us in The Tumult and the Shouting (Longmans, Green, $2.00), along with the revelation that it all started way back in 1877 in a famous Boston family history. There Ought to be a Law against such things, you may feel, but William Seagle thinks that there ought to be a law against useless laws, and he tells you why in his new book (Macaulay, $1.25), a compilation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Browsing | 12/16/1933 | See Source »

...TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING- Ursula Parrott - Longmans, Green ($2.50). "My big book," says Authoress Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Week | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Paramount). When the editors of Liberty called upon ten contributors for a chapter apiece of a serial story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Divorced. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood, 31. author (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss); from her second husband. Charles T. Greenwood, 42, Brooklyn banker; in Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Births and deaths | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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