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...Grace La Rue, Blossom Seeley, Evelyn Law, Bobby Watson, Grace Brinkley, dancing and singing, backed by a large and dexterous chorus...
...sudden prominence. Then they read what Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut at the Metropolitan (Otto Kahn, Chairman), opera-devotees would again make puns about "You Kahn or you Kahn't," or "What...
...Grace of God and by the recently expressed will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
...trim livery, was retained last fortnight by Mary du Cauroy, 62, Duchess of Bedford. Recently she purchased a small, conveniently maneuverable "Moth" airplane, and transformed into a landing field the lawn in front of her home, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The chauffeur is the final touch. He now pilots Her Grace back and forth to London, where she is busily engaged in performing electro-physical researches...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...