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...burst on Windsor a half hour before the party, cleared up just in time for Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Cox and other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...
When Duveen first denounced the Hahn Belle, Mme Harm's husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present...
...Study in Scarlet (Fox). When National Broadcasting Co. presented A Study in Scarlet on the air, its Salt Lake City outlet indignantly cut off the instalment which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure...
...series of shocking murders is being perpetrated in London. Victims all appear to be members of a Scarlet Ring (instead of Mormon Elders), an organization which is liquidating a wholesale theft of jewels from the Imperial Chinese coffers. Victim to pay attention to is No. 3, a certain Captain Pyke. When a body is pulled out of the Thames, his wife (Anna May Wong) identifies it as her husband because of a peculiar ring the corpse is wearing. The diligently-coached Chinese-American actress remarks, in fact, with almost perfect aplomb: "It was an ancient heirloom belonging to my family...
...bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...