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...castle on the wedding day of Head Butler Paul Lukas and the Baroness' personal maid Virginia Bruce, comes John Gilbert, highly recommended by the apprehensive countess whose chauffeur he has been. He watches the butler take his bride to his room. The upstairs buzzer sounds. Says the butler: "Don't worry, my darling Anna. My father was a butler, and he had nine children." As he leaves John Gilbert quickly and smoothly appears. He tells a sentimental story of his? mother's wedding night. Presently he is also fast friends with the butler and with the cook to whom...
After taking one look at Australia's Stanley Melbourne Bruce virtually all Canadian reporters called him "the handsomest man at the Conference." Said the Ottawa Citizen: "He is tall, fine featured, immaculately groomed; one who must be tempted at times to gaze into the full-sized mirror and encounter the grandiose vision of himself...
...Governor General, having spoken the King's piece and received the Conference's thanks, drove home to Rideau Hall, his viceregal residence. Up popped England's Baldwin, nominated Canada's Bennett as permanent chairman. Up stood Australia's "handsomest" Bruce to second the nomination. By unanimous vote Mr. Bennett then took the Desk (carried in and placed in front of the Throne) for the duration of the Conference...
Into the dickering pot Stanley Melbourne ("Handsomest") Bruce threw an Australian ultimatum in the form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course...
...both oceans and on various liners the delegations held aquatic conferences last week, preserving the tradition of secrecy. First chief delegates to land (at Vancouver with a total of 60 persons, some representing the Fiji Islands) were former Premiers Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand and Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia. Cocky Australian henchmen embarrassed their rich, cultured, suave Mr. Bruce by crowing, "You can take it this will be a Bruce show...