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Married. Miss Sarah Booth Thacher, daughter of U.S. Solicitor General Thomas Day Thacher; and George L. Storm of Greenwich, Conn.; at Watch Hill...
Born in Trinidad, smart Mr. Chen went originally to London where he became a prosperous solicitor. In 1926 Chen and Chiang, who now scorns him, were fellow revolutionaries in Canton. Both took Russian gold then, but Marshal Chiang, having conquered half of China (1927), broke with Moscow whereas Chen did not. During Chiang's war of conquest Chen was his No. 1 Chinese propagandist, won thousands of recruits and many a battle for Chiang with his "insolent, bizarre and colorful phraseology." Today Mr. Chen, who is back in Canton repeating .the revolution of 1926, insolently pictures President Chiang...
...arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this Cantonese clique venerable Tang Shao-yi is just window dressing. Brains of the new Government is Eugene Chen, 53, born at Trinidad in the West Indies, "qualified London solicitor," onetime editor-publisher of the Peking Gazette, member of the Chinese Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and Acting Foreign Minister in the Canton Government...
...while trying to conceal the pregnancy of the iceman's fiancee, causes herself to be suspected of a similar predicament. She is engaged to an elderly banker but more interested in one of his clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously in the apparent emergency. Far funnier than the almost morbidly polite comicalities supplied by this situation are those contributed by the iceman (James Gleason) and Marie Prevost as a maid-of-all-work whose comments are ponderous, amazing. Sample-her rebuff to Iceman Gleason...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...