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James John ("Jimmy") Walker, one-time Mayor of New York, has recently hid in Manhattan's swank Ambassador Hotel where his good friend Theatrical Promoter A. C. Blumenthal maintains a suite. Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore is a "model Indian prince," more interested in reforms than in the jewels, dancing girls, elephants of his important province. Betty Compton is a sleek-haired musicomedy dancer, who had a part in Fifty Million Frenchmen...
With an alphabet board under his arm and adroit publicity before him, Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, Parsee "God Man," arrived in the U. S. last May (TIME, May 2). Though long-haired, silky-mustached Meher Baba indicated he had spoken no word for nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India...
...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...
...Named his man-child Yuvraj Shri Karansinghji...
...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...