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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that the German Embassy is going to lead all others in London during the Coronation season in splurges of superkolossal festivity. It was time last week to review the von Ribbentrops. she the heiress of a German champagne family, he an ex-salesman in England of not only rare German wines but also best Scotch whiskey. Intimate are the Hohenzollern grandsons of Wilhelm II with the von Ribbentrops; intimate too are many radical Nazi party members of the tough type who ordinarily do not get on with bemonocled German bourgeoisie and intimate are von Ribbentrop and Hitler. Last August...
...Eliscu & Franz Lehar; Shuberts, producers). "Mr. J. J. Shubert, during his recent tour abroad, had observed the tradition of paying homage to the Waltz King by visiting Lehar at his home in Vienna. He had witnessed performances of five of his recent works in as many different capitals. The rare musical gift Frederika is merely the forerunner of a cycle." So reads a program note in this collaboration between Composer Lehar and the Producers Shubert, which was received by Manhattan first-nighters with self-control bordering on ennui...
Though there are 2,000,000 pairs of twins in the U. S., 30% of them identical, cases of identical twins who are able athletes are rare. Harvard had her famed hockey-playing Bigelows in 1928-29. Yale had her Driscolls nearly 20 years ago, one an oarsman, one a trackman, neither brilliant. Indiana State Teachers College had twin sisters named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend...
...between, groups of earnest men and women who support the American Social Hygiene Association listened to facts and exhortations. From the President of the U. S. and his wife down to the most blushing volunteer social worker, there was evidenced a determination to make venereal diseases, especially syphilis, as rare as typhoid fever. Repeatedly quoted.was President Roosevelt's recent dictum, first of its kind uttered by a man in his office: "Attainment of your objectives would do much to conserve our human resources and would reduce considerably the present large costs for the community care of the disastrous results...
...shrewdest museum presidents in the U. S. An oldline Quaker, independently wealthy, his personal hobby is collecting Pennsylvania Dutch furniture and anecdotes. Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven't made any sauerkraut this year, just five barrels in case of sickness...