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...Wilhelmina Houdini has waited three and one-half years for word from her late husband Harry, magician and ghostbuster. Before he died he promised to communicate with her from the grave if possible. Many have been her attempts, all futile, to talk with him. Often she has been approached by mediums who claimed spiritual contact, but she knew they were all faking. She and Houdini prearranged a code, in which no medium has yet brought word from...
Chester Morris's parents were in vaudeville for years. His brother Gordon writes plays. His brother Adrian and his sister Wilhelmina do short turns and musical specialties. He tried to be an artist for a while, then worked in vaudeville as a Magician?"Mysterious Morris"?copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...
Eyes, cameras, typewriters and a roaring battery of telegraph machines were busy with new issues, new men. For them hospitable Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had carpenters knock together a huge round table in what is ordinarily the lower house of the Dutch Parliament. A little hasty, a little crude were these arrangements, for the lower house had just risen a few days before. But a big, bland tablecloth covered chinks and splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius...
...ended, if not amicably, at least in a formal agreement by the Great Powers to adopt the Young Plan which will take the payment of German Reparations out of politics and put it on a business basis. "Great is our joy that the Conference achieved this success!" cried Queen Wilhelmina...
...invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists of four officers...