Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McLean v. de Ligne. Two men were involved in the other rumpus of the week. The Belgian Embassy, an ornate white stone mansion at 18th street and Massachusetts avenue, is now occupied by His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne. One morning last month His Highness was shocked, enraged, at the sight of a splurgy front-page story in the Washington Post in which his recall to Belgium was "definitely forecast." The newspaper said...
Close Harmony (Paramount). John V. A. Weaver wrote most of the dialog and Elsie Janis the story of this picture. Designed with no higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...
...immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...
...Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage manager with the Theatre Guild. Listed as treasurer of the venture is ubiquitous, omniferous Publisher-Explorer-Publicist George Palmer Putnam...