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...received a letter from Charles W. Tillett, a political commentator of Charlotte, who wrote: "I have said many good things concerning you and I wish to determine, after seeing you, whether I can, like the Queen of Sheba, say the half has not been told, or whether I must repeat what Uncle Eph said to me the other day when I got after him about an extravagant statement he had made: 'Boss, I jest over-spoke myself.' " Candidate Smith wired back: "Will be delighted to see you . . . in the matter of Queen of Sheba versus Uncle...
First is Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 54, Earl of Athlone, a brother of Queen-Empress Mary, and since 1923 His Majesty's Governor General of the Union of South Africa. All his life he has been a soldier-a smart Hussar, an impeccable Life Guard, and finally, during the South
Gossips remember that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...
Other funny plays: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS...
Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...