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Since last November the urbane B. B. C. has been moving piecemeal from quarters adjoining the famed Savoy Hotel on the River Thames back and up to its new Broadcasting House, an eight-story flatiron building between Regents Park and Oxford Circus. Termed by its Latin inscription a Templum Hoc Artium et Musarum, the big white flatiron is dedicated Deo Omnipotent, managed by lohanm Reith Equite (John Reith, Knight...
...boned Queen Elena was the daughter of lusty, barrel-shaped Nicholas I, peasant King of Montenegro. Roman gossips have always insisted that the marriage was arranged to rejuvenate the inbred House of Savoy. Peasant Queen Elena's appreciation of art is elementary. Scholars of the American Academy in Rome still remember the occasion two years ago when she paused uncertainly before a stylized picture of a nude Europa balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...more conventional than the run of musical comedies. The Playgoer is railing rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
Grand Duke Alexander found the Spanish royal family in the Hotel Savoy on the edge of the forest at Fontainebleau. The faithful Duke of Miranda led him first to the salon of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie who was gracious and more than a little sorry for herself...