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Edward, 33, eldest of the four brothers, and George, 25, the youngest, were accompanied by a plump gentleman in morning clothes and a high silk topper???Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had brought with him his wife. (TIME, March 14). Because Canadians have been visited four times by Edward of Wales, but never before by a British Prime Minister in office, interest continued last week in Stanley Baldwin...
...TOPPER???Thorne Smith?McBride ($2). Cosmo Topper is a Better Babbitt of the East Orange, N. J., type, early thwarted into respectability by his dyspeptic wife and his commutation ticket. The fun starts when he buys the low-hum, nickel-plated car which carried sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element...
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