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...dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate...
...finally becomes a question of the horse or submission to the rigors of the business. Rogers makes his break and puts everything into grooming the horse for the approaching derby. His financial plight makes this task seem an impossible one but he is aided by his young sister-in-law (Myrna Loy) and finally succeeds in getting Broadway Bill to the post. The ensuing race is easily the most exciting horse race we have ever seen on the screen, and Broadway Bill comes through only to collapse after the finish, his delicate system overtaxed by the tremendous exertion--with...
...burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother and new sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, flew into Jamaica from Haiti, settled down to wait for tardy Gloucester...
...House smelling of Christmas greens, Mrs. Roosevelt gave a "New Year's" dance (on Dec. 29), for Sons Franklin Jr. and John. The boys had driven home from Harvard for the holidays, had been arrested for speeding near New Haven. The guests of honor were Barbara Gushing, sister-in-law of Brother James Roosevelt, and Jean Martineau, niece of Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada and the President's cousin. Some 300 youngsters eagerly responded to the First Lady's priceless invitation...
Mark Van Doren, of the literary Van Dorens (Sister-in-law Irita is editor of the Herald Tribune Books; Brother Carl is chief editor of the Literary Guild), is a poet. Though he is 40, The Transients is his first novel. In self-consciously dignified prose he tells a poetic parable...