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...ancient, soot-blackened Bow Street Police Court for several weeks, officially tagged "Miss X." This slim, bobbed-hair blonde, English to judge from her accent, arrived curvesomely sheathed in clinging black, kept shifting her handsome fur piece with the sinuosity of Mae West, as she testified before a bug-eyed judge. "She is a lady," explained the Crown, refused to divulge her name...
...Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
...years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...
...brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...
...talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...