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...phrases such as these many a London editor flayed last week the following opinions expressed by characters in the second volume of H. G. Wells's newly released novel The World of William Clissold: George V, R. I. is "the worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII." The Earl of Balfour, "that damned madonna lily; . . . grows where he is planted." Lloyd George is as "clever as six foxes Margot Asquith: " Wherever- there is a foreground there also will be the Countess of Oxford and Asquith...
...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...
Naughty Riquette. Into some nonsense about a naughty Parisian telephone operator who proves in Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers...
From the depths of a plump arm chair at the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, James R. Sheffield, vacationing U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, frankly confessed to newsgatherers last week his bafflement by the Mexican crisis: "None of us is able intelligently to diagnose the condition between the Church and State in Mexico. . . . No foreigner can understand the Mexican nature. Even men who have lived for twenty-five years in the nation do not understand the mental processes of the people...
...Plush-plump, moon-placid Her Highness the Maharani of Dhrangadhra granted recently her first interview to the Occidental press. As chief of the Maharajah's six wives, she received a female U. S. newsgatherer in seclusion,* behind the curtains or purdah of the royal harem. The Maharani said: "The women of Dhrangadhra are opposed to polygamy. It makes us unhappy and our husbands cannot be happy either because they are mixed up in our quarrels. Neither do we like to have our men go to England to the universities. It makes them dissatisfied with us. They...