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Farley $75,000, just enough to get him out of the debts incurred by him since going to Washington as Postmaster General at $15,000 per year. Book royalties ($5,000) will be velvet...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
City College's student publications thereupon published belated reviews of this book. Chapter titles: "A Platonic Kiss," "A Siren's Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
...Connecticut weekend party comes Invader Cindy Lou Bethany (Helen Claire), a Georgia Congressman's daughter and blood kin of Culpeppers, Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...