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Seeking Divorce. Thalia Fortescue Massie, 22, victim of Hawaii's most publicized rape & murder case; from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., who was pardoned after serving one hour of his sentence for murdering one of his wife's attackers. Said she: "The divorce is being obtained at the insistence of Lieutenant Massie. I am personally reluctant to take such a step...
...have always loved the stage, particularly comedy and musical comedy. When I was a kid, I used to steal money to go to the theater. Of course Thalia has made remarkable progress since I was a boy. The comedy of the caricature and the burlesque was in vogue then. Now the public demands human beings in human situations...
...slewed across the road in front of them. Getting out to investigate, the officers were set upon by four Hawaiians. The women raced to a nearby house for aid, returned to find the lieutenants lying unconscious on the banks of the Mawai Canal, not far from where Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie was raped in 1931. Arrested as suspects were natives named Paoa, Karratii and Kamana...
...stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model...
During the War Hannibal and Luciana suddenly appear in Thalia. Hannibal starts a newspaper and, against all anarchistic precedent, begins to harang Thalians to join the Allies. While grinding his teeth at Communists, Socialists, Pacifists, he grinds his own axe as well. His paper is subsidized by the Allies. His fame and popularity grow to such proportions that, after the War, when he marches on the capitol, Mirasol, he is immediately proclaimed Dictator by the helpless King. For a time, with Luciana helping, he is kingpin. But he needs king-pin-money from U. S. Financier Stedford to keep going...