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...Light fiction, especially detective stories," has been the chief convalescent literary diet prescribed for George V, but last week His Majesty was allowed to delve into a fairly hefty tome, his new biography by discreet old Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, 69, onetime private secretary to Lord Kitchener, whom he also biographed...
Only one page of the tome could be called exciting enough to send a tingle or two up the royal spine as His Majesty sat reading in the bright cosy library at Sandringham. Glowingly Sir George relates how in the latter years of the War he often heard discontented Tommies complain that the Monarchy was not absolute enough. "The talk in barrack rooms," he writes unctuously, "struck the note of unswerving loyalty not to the Constitution but to the person of the King. . . . It might have been comparatively easy at that moment to set up an absolute Dictatorship...
Called smartest U. S. director, King Vidor grew up in Galveston, Tex., went to Tome School in Maryland. When he left school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little money out of it. Several years later, after marrying Florence Vidor, not then famed as a cinemactress, he got his first good job writing and directing stories for General Film Co. Recently he was divorced by Florence Vidor, married Eleanor Boardman whom he directed in The Crowd...
...believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher"-moving picture "Hahhlim"-Harlem "gel"-girl "sealed"-married "Joosh"-Jewish "tome"-book "Horrors Liveright"-Horace Liveright "hush parlor"-speakeasy...
Last week President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...