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...court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune since 1920, he had been recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular...
...Manhattan's Doctors Hospital was found a patient named William Shakespeare, 54, Southampton, L. I. carpenter with gallstones. Said he: "My father was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and he and my mother used to say that we are descendants of the old man. I got a hold of one of his plays years ago-Romeo and Juliet, I think-and I started to read it, but it didn't make sense to me. One of my boys I named William Shakespeare- after me, not the play writer. I don't take much stock in names...
Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
...last week Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert...
Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...