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...Chicago, Mrs. Marjorie McKennon sued her husband Paul for divorce, charged that last Christmas he gave their three children gifts of money, filched it while they were asleep, told them next morning that "for some unknown reason" Santa Claus had come back for his presents...
Died. Oroville Dore Spreckels, 61, Paris and Riviera socialite, wife of Claus August Spreckels, retired sugar refiner, daughter-in-law of the late great Sugarman Claus August Spreckels Sr.; in Paris. She made news in 1926 by exposing dishonesty among the croupiers at Monte Carlo, forcing the discharge of five...
...school. Three years later they went to Manhattan, to study at Columbia. Now they live in Minneapolis; but she still hopes to go back to South Berwick, to "the house my grandfather built and in which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing...
...Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought him to Hollywood's attention but an infinite skill with certain kinds of characterization are what should prevent the attention from wavering. A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you-Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty...
French Senators raged last week at French Deputies who seemed bent on scrapping the new budget of Santa Claus-bearded Finance Minister Henri Cheron, that rare old Senator from the Department of Calvados in Normandy where the world's best apple brandy is distilled...