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Married. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri (see p. 60); and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite; in Washington. A special train took the bridegroom from Manhattan to Washington; eight limousines decorated with his racing colors met him & his friends at the station. The special train later took bride, bridegroom and a jazzband to Manhattan, whence they sailed for a big-game-hunting honeymoon in Africa...
Engaged. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri; and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite...
...from her appearance when she is occupied or doing something she likes-for instance, driving an automobile as fast as it can go. The Well of Romance. Somewhere between the opening chorus and the final curtain of The Well of Romance, Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) forgot that he had set out to write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta...
While no price was revealed, M-K President Frank Preston Parish said it was at "a substantial profit." Yet what was more important was that the sale assures "carrying out of all the engineering plans as originally laid...
...Fickert coldly watched his onetime prime witness across the chamber. Justice Preston asked MacDonald: "Do you still feel in Fickert's clutches?" Replied MacDonald pitifully: "I do. I'm in a daze right...