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...Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native named Ahmang, part Portuguese, part Dyak. Son of a Malay chief who earns a living by making pins out of the gold he pans at the mouth of a river near Samarang, Ahmang...
...deeply interested in her two children, prepares good meals for her family, plays the piano a little, fusses a lot with her clothes, is always late for appointments, is not at all hard to look at, likes the sweet tenors on the radio, plays a little contract, likes the movies and sentimental poetry and has just received a license to punish the family car. Oh! yes-and I almost forgot to say that she plans and administers the family budget with a close hand (though this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover...
...French law a husband who has not signed a marriage contract is entitled to 50% of the bride's estate...
Huton lawyers meanwhile saw to it that Barbara's Prince should not become too great an expense. A marriage contract was drawn up granting Prince Alexis a fat dowry but keeping "complete control of the disposition of her entire property" for Heiress Hutton. Included in the contract, but not made public, was the amount Prince Alexis would inherit in case of his wife's death. These details settled, all was ready for a double celebration of the wedding #151; first, in a French registry office, then two days later with burning candles and flowered crowns in the Russian...
...when Copperheir William Andrews Clark Jr. has announced that he will no longer stand its deficits. Last week Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic drive rebounded to Los Angeles' benefit. As soon as Conductor Otto Klemperer was kicked out of the Berlin State Opera where his contract had four more years to run, Los Angeles quickly signed...