Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of Magda de Fontanges' visit to the U. S. was to capitalize on her misbehavior by appearing as a show girl at New York's French Casino cabaret. When the Normandie, on which she had saved part of her first-class expense money by traveling tourist, docked in New York, immigration officials refused to let her disembark. Next day, Magda de Fontanges was whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same...
...London in the state of overexcitement which has put him to bed several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace," were exhorted by a French observer at Brussels to save their cable money, persuade "American...
...young man witnessed the triumphant re-entry into Brussels- after it had been evacuated by the Germans-of Belgium's King Albert and Crown Prince Leopold, who is now King. In 1935 Britain's present King George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York returned to Brussels...
...past four years Artist Blickenderfer has been employed by the New York Post as a retoucher of photographs. He lives in suburban Astoria with his dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source...
...Cleopatra (adapted by Professor William Strunk Jr. from William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Rivers, Inc.). Last summer 35-year-old Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Alabama-born daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives, married Actor John Emery and announced that she was "going to New York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching veteran Conway...