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...birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break a slava cake. Fifty years of Balkan bitterness and two wars were supposed to have been blotted out as Tsar Boris and his svelte Tsaritsa loanna were received by King Alexander and plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, sister of Rumanian King Carol. After four days of gaudy Balkan pageantry, the four sovereigns saw priests break crosswise into four chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...
...strange disciples the one who has caused Mahatma Gandhi the sharpest pangs of dismay is plump & pleasing Nilla Cram Cook, 23-year-old daughter of the late George Cram Cook, Iowa poet. At 19 Nilla Cram Cook married a Greek nobleman. Three years later she was converted to Hinduism under the name of Nilla Nagini and Devi, "The Blue Serpent Lady...
...very well for Father Coughlin to justify himself by papal quotation, thought many a devout Catholic last week, but the fact remained that popes clothe their crusades for social justice in solemn, stately Latin, not in hoarse words through a microphone. Most outraged of the Catholic clergy was plump, garrulous Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn who stormed at Father Coughlin: "The man is an infernal nuisance. He has gone mad with popularity. . . . Members of his Church despise him. . . . His Bishop is even worse than he is. The Bishop has it in his power to stop...
Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...