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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise" makes a girl healthy, happy, and safe, is true. Nine times out of ten that is the case. Of course there is always the tenth girl who just happened to meet the right fellow, and now has three maids and even takes in the opera! This case is rare, however, and the townie usually goes back to the local boy who really made good...
...never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly the hero in his rare moments of appearance. Mr. Barrymore should not be subdued that way; but unfortunately the spotlight demands a younger triangle of which Francis Lederer is about sixty degrees and Don Ameche thirty. The odd part is that Miss Colbert, as a penniless American dancer, passes up Mr. Lederer for two rows...
...with weeks-old wounds covered by filthy dressings are still unattended. Several hospital ships serve the more seriously wounded and a few of the sick have been transferred to the interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters...
Last week Detroit lost, and Copenhagen was about to gain a rare and spectacular British diplomatic hostess. Leslie C. Hughes-Hallett, British consul in Detroit, sailed from Manhattan to become consul general at Copenhagen. Of greater interest was the fact that Consul Hughes-Hallett was taking along his blue-eyed, dark-haired wife, Violet Holmes-Tidy Hughes-Hallett. She likes snakes and rats...
...United Kingdom over the words "By Appointment to His Majesty" is granted to a select few tradesmen who must have served the King or Queen for three years before applying for the privilege. Since George VI has been King for only two years, his warrants are still rare. He has granted them to 34 and Queen Elizabeth to 31 personal suppliers who served them before they reached the throne. George V issued about 1,000 (he had nine bakers, twelve grocers, eleven chemists).* Altogether, including those granted by Edward VIII, there are about 1,375 now in existence...