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...tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married in 1930, died with a double line of infantry in the street outside. Mexico's President Rodriquez & Cabinet calling at intervals...
...Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent as they may be envious of his life. One of the ablest of society portraitists, his style...
...There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she left to join her husband who was then in no special demand by the cinema. The situations of Edna Best and Herbert Marshall are now reversed. Last month he left Hollywood, whither he will soon return, to join his wife in the London cast of Another Language...
...Union Station to board his B. & O. special the President looked drawn and tired. On his way home in 1928 he had traversed this same route. Then he called it "My Own Main Street.'' Then he talked only of Republican prosperity. Now he was kept busy explaining whither that prosperity had vanished. At Martinsburg he joshed with citizens about some apples they had given him on an earlier excursion. At Garrett, Ind., next morning he marveled to see so many people up so early to greet him. As his train skirted Chicago his boosters turned out with placards...
...Freshman, and he was blessed among Harvard Freshmen. He was descended from a Rebel General of the Revolution; he placed three initials before his surname, and Roman numerals behind it; money was no real thing to him, for it came he knew not whence, and disappeared he cared not whither; of clothes he disdained all but London's best, which he wore brazenly, openly, with a jaunty nonchalance which befitted his caste. By virtue of these things his box was filled with bids, which he answered in person. By virtue of these things his classmates, descendants of the purest Puritans...