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MISS EARHART STULTZ GORDON BURRY BASIN WALES (COLLECT) IF YOU NEED IT ANY NEW SUITS SEE MY FRIENDS JULES ROSENWEIN AND MOE EINSTEIN PETTICOAT LANE STOP MENTION MY NAME STOP FIRST CLASS GOODS STOP YOU CANT GO WRONG STOP
...Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address...
Tribunal Probes. Counsel for Miss Savidge grilled Inspector Collins as to whether he had alternately threatened and cajoled her, called her "Irene," tried to press cigarets upon her, questioned and examined her as to the length and color of her petticoat, and finally asked: "You're really a good girl and you've never...
Inspector Collins denied that he had threatened, admitted that he had called Miss Savidge "Irene," said that she had asked for cigarets herself, swore that she had voluntarily stood up to show her pink petticoat, and denied asking Miss Savidge if she had ever...
...Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday; but almost momentarily her face brightened because "There are also more cheerful moments in our lives," as she put it. "Once I was taking the part of Marguerete in 'Faust'; the performance was in Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing...