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...about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best that he has turned out to date. Mr. Belloc has successfully evaded dullness and boredom in his tale of King Charles...
...with whom I have gotten the most enjoyment from acting." Buddy avowed a preference for the piano above all other instruments which he plays. When asked what he thought of the Harvard indifference, he replied that his audiences in Boston had been very kind to him. "We were a bit afraid to come here at first, though," he admitted...
...described as having been a member of Max Reinhardt's companies in both Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee I Sing...
...pipes were not. So he sent to the Italian Alps for briar roots and began to make his own. Young British officers took them to war by the thousands. Before long the Dunhill pipe with its round white spot on the stem was thoroughly internationalized. On this amazing bit of word-of-mouth advertising Alfred Dunhill began to build a world-wide pipe business. Today there are Dunhill agencies in 57 lands from Trinidad to Zanzibar. There is a Dunhill pipe factory in London, a cigar factory in Glasgow, a Dunhill shop in Paris, a Dunhill shop in Manhattan, which...
...Germany and Austria but not Turkey. Guatemala fought only Germany. Besides numerous cartoons, war maps, newspaper headlines, Compiler Sullivan has exhumed many a curious highlight from the museumed files. Some of them: versions (bowdlerized) of the bawdy war song. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"; "gasless Sunday." when every patriot did his bit by parking his car in the garage for the day; the late Theodore Roosevelt's furious attempts to get permission from the Government to raise a division and take it to France: the exclusive cable announcing the "false armistice" sent by President Roy Howard of the United Press (TIME...