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Died. Jonathan M. Denwood, 63, author of Red Ike; after long illness; in Cockermouth, England. Day-time tailor, night-time poacher, spare-time writer, in 1931 after nine years of hawking the manuscript Denwood saw his novel Red Ike chosen book-of-the-month by the English Book Society, sell 30,000 copies within two months. A London literary group invited him to dine. Wrote he: "When my novel was being kicked about from publisher to publisher, I desperately needed money for the first time in my life,-money for the skilled medical attention that would have arrested my malady...
...London a tailor sued Valentine Edward Charles Browne. Viscount Castlerosse, beefy director of London newspapers, for ?75 ($260) for two dinner suits of blue herringbone and blue tropical hopsack, two extra pairs of trousers and six white waistcoats, ordered for wear on his 1932 U. S. visit. Defense: misfit ("only fit for . . . the Zoo"). To the tailor's testimony that his shape was hard to fit and he could not stand still, Lord Castlerosse replied: "I have been in the Guards and I am told I am an expert at standing still." An expert witness called the coats...
Menuhin. Plenty of ice-cream was 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin's reward this week for a Manhattan recital superbly played. With his $60,000 Stradivarius, Yehudi goes from Manhattan to play at Smith College. He wears long pants now, made for him by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. But he is still carefully protected from alluring young girls. His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton. Both girls play the piano expertly but Mother Menuhin decided several years ago that one prodigy in the family was enough...
Therese Neumann was born in 1898. eldest of the ten children of Ferdinand Neumann, a poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what...
...Chevalier rescues the princess from an overturned carriage, tips his straw hat far to one-side, sings songs which are relayed endlessly by the other members of the cast, and in the end marries the princess, as dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...