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...should boost her stock in undergraduate eyes. Although this department can see no relevance whatever in the title, "Just Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...
...Main Ball Room suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1,500 guests enjoyed some $50,000 worth of entertainment in honor of the coming out of Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. The social spectrum ranged from Cafe Society's fat impresario, Elsa Maxwell, to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The proceedings which lasted till 7 a. m. were news not only in Manhattan but in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles. Two days later an official seal was set on Brenda Frazier's glamor by a court accounting showing that this "infant over 14" has several trust...
...coming-out parties. Debutante: Wilhelmina ("Tugboat Minnie") Frances Vandenbaard, professional model (under the name of Wilma Baard) and daughter of a barge captain. The party was timed to fill the papers a few days before the debut of café society's current Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Gowned gratis and gloriously by Macy's, Miss Vandenbaard from 11 p.m. till dawn greeted guests who came to laugh, remained to roar. Said the only socialite debutante present, Elvira ("Vivi") Fairchild: "Debs would have more fun if they could have this type of a party." Said Tugboat Minnie...
Many other British statesmen have been called just as bad or worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...
...Incumbent: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier...