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Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
...girl friend. Novelist Field's husband, Arthur Pedersen, is a Hollywood literary agent, and in the early summer of 1938 galley proofs of the novel were at all the big movie plants before the ink was dry. As it turned out, the script was the prima donna of the show from start to finish...
...Individualiy by prima donna conductors can be carried too far and our remarks on the Mozart G Minor (as done by Toscanini) are applicable here: Excessive speed does not make for clarity; drive on the conductor's part can and does obscure many of the details. Of the two readings, Toscanini or Furtwaengler, we unhesitatingly recommend the latter, for, while its vigorously dramatic and vital treatment may shatter your ideas on the interpretation of the symphony (the conventional Weingartner rendition, nevertheless, Furtwaengler's musical integrity stands unquestioned, aside from the fact that the recording is superior...
...with Kansas City's Peet Bros. (Crystal White Laundry Soap) in 1926, old Caleb Johnson was two years in his grave. When the combine took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap supplier for Down...
...Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...