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Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...
...Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz' early life go far toward making his accomplishments remarkable. His father was a smalltown doctor in the hilly South of France. Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession. He had no sound musical grounding. Not until he was sent to Paris, set to dissecting corpses did he rebel and on his own account go after the rudiments of music which most musicians learn...
Premier Edouard Herriot of France and Prince Noulay El Hassan, 3, son & heir of Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed, strolled hand in hand on a Paris boulevard. The tiny Prince spied, coveted a toy horse and automobile in a store window. The Premier promptly bought them, delivered them in person to the Sultan's hotel...
...with specters and names from Elena's glamorous history. Then the relicts of the Hapsburg Court return, some from London millinery shops, others from managing positions in Swiss boarding houses, and as piece de resistance comes Prince Rudolph from his taxi business to revive memories in Vienna and to toy with champagne on a pauper's holiday. Elena is attacked by severe nostalgia and goes to the party, confronts the irrepressible Rudolph, and so Love bursts the bonds of home courses in applied psychology and sweeps all before it as in Hapsburg days...
...Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid a cloud of toy balloons...