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...Francisco's swankest jewelry shop is Shreve's on Grant Avenue, but many a middle-class housewife prefers Samuels', "The House of Lucky Wedding Rings," on Market Street. Albert S. Samuels, a hustler who started in business two years after the 1906 Earthquake, used to give a theatre party every year for couples who had been married with his rings. The parties stopped in 1922 because he could not find a theatre large enough to hold all his guests...
...international trophy held by U. S. yachtsmen since 1851 despite all that the late Sir Thomas Lipton could do about it. Last week the whispers gathered into a sharp, clear challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron. The source was remarkable inasmuch as the Royal Yacht Squadron, world's swankest yachting organization, had had no dealings with the U. S. since 1895 when the Earl of Dunraven sailed home in a rage, charging sharp practice by the America's Cup defenders. But the real challenger represented by the Squadron last week was Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith...
England's swiftest, swankest sports car used to be the Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
...Francisco's fire companies were not only a potent political force, like those of New York, but the equivalent of the city's swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played...
Founder of the Academy of Arts is a personable blonde of 23 with a questing nose and a passion for self improvement: Eleanor Verande. Her life has not been dull. At 15 she had a job in two of the swankest Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive...