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From the World's Fair and Niagara Falls sight-seeing Prince Tsunenori Kaya of Japan sped on to the Grand Canyon. There a woman bustled up to the Oriental nobleman to gush: "I'm sure you know the Japanese boy that works for my sister in New York. No? Well...
Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word "genius" is applied most often. Even to her intimate friends she remains an enigma. Her great-great-grandmother was an Egyptian. Her Italian father was dean of the University of Rome, a...
At Tel Asmar, 50 mi. northeast of Bagdad, other Oriental Institute diggers turned up stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length...
The horses of the man who had organized the first international polo team to defeat England, and who was the only man to win the Kentucky Derby with a filly (Regret, 1915), were valued at nearly a million dollars. Among real estate and personal property worth over $6,000,000...
Stamboul Quest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) goes one step beyond the usual spy story, deals with counter-espionage in Wartime Constantinople. A German spy, Annemarie (Myrna Loy), is set to catch the Turkish Commander of the Dardanelles, who is suspected of selling secrets to the British. With the aid of a...