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That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...
...done exactly what Great Britain's Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association did in 1925 to Director Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...Newsmagazine in your next issue and to send me a copy containing the apology and explanation to the following address: 6908 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill., c/o Mr. Eddie Young, who is my secretary and where I expect to arrive at the end of August, for I sail from Southampton on the Olympic on Aug. 22. I am asking for a reasonable and a just explanation and apology, and I cannot but think you have any other desire than to give me a square deal. If this is done promptly I will be satisfied, if not I shall seek redress...
Lucia Marian Foster-Welch, keen-eyed, hawk-nosed 1237th Lord Mayor of Southampton, England, Admiral in the English Navy (ex-officio title conferred by King Henry IV), arrived on the Leviathan, which flew her Admiral's flag. The Mayor, who is the first woman to hold the position, wore the scarlet mink-trimmed robe of her office, a tricornered black beaver hat, an official 16th-Century gold chain. She was accompanied by her daughter, honorary Mayoress, and was suffering from a swollen nose, the result of a slip on the ship's deck. After a one-week tour...
...smaller only than the games at three unnamed places in Florida. The casino, named the Montauk Island Club and operated by the hotel syndicate which is glorifying Long Island's cool tip, promptly closed its doors, much to the regret of summer-bored Wealth and Fashion at nearby Southampton. The Evening Post (Republican) reported that the club had had to close down once before this summer-when it was ordered investigated by Governor Smith, who had heard about it during the week he spent at nearby Hampton Bays (TIME, Aug. 13). The hotel syndicate, among whose directors are Vice...