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...motorcycle policeman was sufficient to convoy to their hotel home Jimmy Walker and his second wife, onetime Musicomedienne Betty Compton whom he married in the South of France.* They then read 1,400 letters and telegrams of greeting, planned his future. Possibilities included the law, the theatre, the cinema, the liquor business. That night the City of New York was gently rocked by its first earthquake since...
...check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period of seven years he had used equally simple methods to bilk W. C. Fields, Mrs. James J. Walker (Betty Compton), Vivienne Segal and others of $300.000, relying on his careless clients not to notice. Next day in court Prisoner Kemp dazedly set the figure at about $50,000, mumbled: "I'm sorry to have caused Mrs. Rogers any trouble...
PRINCE CHARLIE AND His LADIES- Compton Mackenzie-Knopf...
...setting, but monarchists are still loyal to their lost causes in many a stoutly republican country. The Stuarts sank long ago below the English horizon, but the Jacobitish after glow lingered. That all Jacobites are not yet dead was shown this week when Novelist Compton Mackenzie published Prince Charlie and His Ladies. Author Mackenzie writes Jacobitingly, speaks with contumely of "Whig" reviewers who deplore his loyalist zeal. U. S. readers may not share Author Mackenzie's emotions nor his unflagging interest in the controversial minutiae of the Jacobite legends, but they will not need Scottish blood to perk...
Three days later A. T. & T. celebrated its 50th anniversary by taking an hour on the radio, broadcasting a long-distance chat among Washington's Gary Travers Grayson, Boston's Karl Taylor Compton, Chicago's Rufus Cutler Dawes, Hollywood's Grace Moore, St. Louis' Jerome Herman ["Dizzy"] Dean...