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...Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden Wedding last week. Her Grace won the hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement...
...died 1926. In 1928 he, 90, married a 26-year-old Butte, Mont, girl who had been his nurse. In 1929 he died.*Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania with rod & reel landed a 157-lb. specimen off Block Island last month...
...didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties." For three hours a day she worked at piano and composition, presently had her score ready for Conductor Willem van Hoogsträten. She also composed a nocturne and an Irish reel, orchestrated a Beethoven Sonata. Smart, fiftyish, she sat in the floodlighted Stadium the night of its performance, wondered how the Polonaise would sound...
...about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle fat) reappears, the situation requires the obvious solution of sixth reel matrimony. The outmoded quandaries of The Common Law (derived from a novel which Robert William Chambers wrote in 1913) cause Joel McCrea to look slightly disgruntled as the painter, provide nice surroundings but mediocre dramatic material for Constance Bennett...
...alarming to Producer Castle have been produced only by Warner Bros, and Paramount. Paramount samples: a series entitled Movie Memories, comprising old newsreels, early shots of current stars, by courtesy of Liggett & Myers; My Merrie Oldsmobile, song cartoon; Jolt for General Germ, cartoon extolling Lysol. Warner Bros, samples: one-reel plays advertising Chesterfields; On the Slopes of the Andes, a coffee cultivation panorama to further Great Atlantic & Pacific grocery sales. Warner Bros, have contracted for a dozen or so more advertising shorts, Paramount for 50. Advertising films which cost advertisers $12,000 a reel, $40 a reprint, $5 per thousand...