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GORDON R. FOLSOM South Berwick...
Last week's revival was saved by its dash, Cecil Beaton leading the way with his gaudily handsome sets and wonderful costumes. Not all the cast could keep up with him, but Estelle Winwood got robust comedy out of the gossipy Duchess of Berwick, and England's lovely Penelope Ward got style, presence, even a sort of believableness into the proud, priggish young Lady Windermere...
Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
...strength of the strike, Berwick stock has climbed from 17? to 50? a share. Burke owns 300,000 shares. He will get a lump sum "bonus" (amount still undetermined) from his employers, plus 15% of the stock issue in a new Rush Lake-Berwick firm to be called Joe Burke Gold Mines. Mining men last week guessed that he could get half a million dollars for his holdings, if he wanted to sell. Said Joe Burke: "Pot of gold...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...