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...Canada's greatest racing classic, 18,000 Toronto socialites and plain people last week swarmed into Woodbine Park. In honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal box until time for the main race, when...
...LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL-John Blakeney (with a foreword by the Baroness Orczy)-Washburn ($2.50). In the form of a full-dress biography, Author Blakeney tells all that is left to tell about the Scarlet Pimpernel...
CAPITALIZING on the new wave of interest in The Scarlet Pimpernel evoked by a Hollywood adaptation of Baroness Orczy's novel, Mr. Blakeney presents what is supposed to be the accurate story of his life and exploits. Mr. Blakeney's Scarlet Pimpernel is so much like the novelized personage that the book is hardly worth the trouble he took in filling in missing gaps and adding all sorts of anecdotes. It is not stated that the author is a descendant of the illustrious Blakeney's; indeed, his extreme adulation of them all would prove a bit nauseating if one knew...
Even more incredible than this story, however, is the portrait of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a boy of eleven years old, "from a contemporary silver point drawing." With an air of the greatest insouciance young Percy stands in his tailcoat, ruff, and knee breeches, his left hand daintily grasping the well known handkerchief, his right elevating some sort of lorgnette or bauble which is not clearly distinguishable, and looking for all the world exactly as he did at twenty and at thirty and at forty...
...Oklahoma City, the girl chosen as Webster Junior High School's Healthiest Girl was discovered in bed with scarlet fever, her runner-up in bed with mumps...