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Vina and Eugene Delmar are a happy-go-lucky pair of citizens. They married when they were both looking for jobs on Broadway, graduated to writing for Snappy Stories magazine, now have a very good job collaborating on fiction and cinema scripts for which pert Vina (Bad Girl) invariably gets the credit. Last week the inseparable Delmars were put asunder for the first time in 17 years...
...Under a pert caricature of New York City's explosive Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the art show of the Columbia University faculty appeared...
Since the death in 1936 of Egypt's corpulent King Fuad, the eyes of Egyptian jellaheen have watched the career of his successor-son, 18-year-old King Farouk I. On returning to Egypt to be crowned, the young King chose a commoner as his intended bride, pert little 16-year-old Sasi Naz Zulfikar, daughter of a palace lady-in-waiting, bestowed on her the name Farida, meaning "The Only One." Bickering resulted in the postponement of the King's marriage until Feb. 11. Bickering last week got Farouk into much deeper hot water...
...Bulletin Index is a pert weekly published in Pittsburgh and mainly concerned with Pittsburgh affairs. Last week its editors printed an indignant story (which they privately regarded as a great scoop) about a scientific "miscarriage of justice" which was incidentally an outrage to Pittsburgh's civic pride...
Arranged for Chicago's Arts Club by pert, attractive Mrs. Robert S. Pirie when she and Mr. Pirie, whose father is president of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., drove their trailer to Mexico City last year, the show numbered 54 paintings, 36 of them new, by 14 first-string Mexican artists...