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...year Director Newsom has been ruling the writers, 28 State Guide Books have been published. This week even the belated Maryland Guide appeared, with sketches of Marylanders Barbara Fritchie and Wallis Warfield. With the 17 that came out under Alsberg, that leaves only three States undescribed...
...roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to be wed by the man who had married the Duke and Wally...
...Robert Redfield, dean of U. of C.'s Division of Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who had the pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared that the big city pattern, to be thoroughly understood, should be studied in the light of its opposite pole-the primitive tribe-and of intermediate societies such as peasants. Peasants may seem to be primitive in their simple, stable way of life but they have definite urban connections if they...
...Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was the stipulation that one mural shall show the famous beauties of Baltimore...
...Nineties Revue, in which, every Sunday evening since July, grey old Joe has been barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such ghostly patrons as Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, David Warfield, Lew Dockstader and the Madison Wheelmen, while a good, corny music-hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics as She Is More...