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Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland...
Manhattan newspaper offices for the last three weeks have buzzed about a Hearst "raid" on feature writers of the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram. Over to Hearst went Fashion Writer Prunella Wood and Shopping Colyumist Alice Hughes. Last week it became known that Heywood Broun had received a Hearst offer, turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed...
...interview with Miss Davies' great & good friend Pub lisher Hearst, relating that he, too, had just arrived in Los Angeles, with the words: "I'm just CWAZY about Europe." On the back page were eight more little pictures of Miss Davies, and a lengthy colyum of studio gossip by "Prunella Parsnips," parodying Louella Parsons, Hearst reporter of Hollywood chit-chat...
...same ways that favored "The Road to Rome". His showman's speech before the curtain was lightly and beautifully done. Guy Standing put patchicolored Harlequin up beside the other two leading parts with a smooth and restrained performance. The principle of return dominates "The Jealous Moon" as it did "Prunella", the dean of all whimsicalities and most of Barrie. Shabby Pierrot, tended by the lustreless Vermilia for whom he once left Columbine, wears a flannel muffler as he sits in the garden where love had been. The garden is unkempt, and the leaves on its dead grass...
...Prunella. Students of the Theatre Guild School revived this fantasy by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker for three special matinees. Winthrop Ames officiated as guest director. The story is that of Pierrot and Pierette. One young lady, Sylvia Sidney, gave brilliant promise. The matinees attracted sufficient attention to be extended...