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From the solid shoulders of ruddy, jovial Sportsman John Grenville Bates the responsibility of picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County...
...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
...impecunious Jack Morgan "chartered" the Aafje to take his pregnant wife on a cruise and Yachtsman Faulding took on two young men named Edward Spernak and Robert Home as crew. Glib Jack Morgan talked Los Angeles Nurse Elsie Berdan into joining the party to take care of his wife. Sportsman Faulding invited along one of his friends, stoutish Mrs. Gertrude Turner, who brought her 8-year-old son Robert. On the evening of December 20 the Aafje and its eight passengers cleared the San Pedro breakwater and scudded silently out into the Pacific...
Died. Robert Worth Bingham, 66, sportsman, lawyer, publisher, since 1933 U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; following a diagnostic operation which disclosed "abdominal Hodgkins disease," probably some form of infection with the appearance of tumor, whose rarity baffled Johns Hopkins' surgeons, whose seriousness surprised his friends; in Baltimore. His second marriage, in 1916, was to the widow of Standard Oil's late great Henry M. Flagler. She died eight months after marrying Mr. Bingham, left him $5,000,000. Next year he purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, became famed...
Ronald Colman plays a double role as both the king and the English sportsman who fills the king's shoes during the coronation period. Ruler for a day, he has the misfortune to fall in love with the king's betrothed, lovely Madeleine Carroll. That in the end they have to part does something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Colman has might and right on his side, he looks...