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Catherine Howard, the prettiest lady in the court, is in love with young Thomas Culpepper, but she still thinks it would be pleasant to be queen. Henry, in love with Catherine before his marriage to Anne of Cleves, marries her after the divorce. These are Henry's gayest days. "Life has found its meaning," he tells his court one night on his way to the Queen's room after a day of hunting. When it becomes apparent that the meaning is a love affair between Catherine and young Culpepper, there is only one thing for the king...
...world. Compared to it hockey is child's play. Once, when I was riding in New York, I broke three ribs on the fourth day, continued, and won. Another time I won with a broken collar bone that I smashed on the first night. But I took my prettiest spill right here in Boston. I was trying out the Arena track before a grind when I fractured my skull, broke my nose, cracked my collar bone, cut my face badly, and busted my jaw in three places. I didn't enter that race...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, on the Jewish Purim Festival (March 11), Jewess Katherine Spector, 19. Bayonne, N. J. piano teacher, was crowned "Prettiest U. S. Jewess" and 1933 "Queen Esther" of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance after a national contest. The festival's profits will go toward, teaching young Jews Judaism, sending Queen Spector to Palestine & back...
...Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...must not be supposed that Hot Saturday is an unusually daring or profligate production. On the contrary it is a stale and feeble homily, tepidly concerned with what passes for young love in a minor U. S. city. Nancy Carroll is a bank clerk and the town's prettiest girl. She is so popular that the gossips wag their tongues. When a young rake entertains her at his parties, it is taken for granted that he and she are misbehaving. More becomingly dressed than in Scarlet Dawn, Miss Carroll plays her stupid role ingratiatingly; Cary Grant...