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Elsic Soughvitz of Little Rock, Ark., writes in that she is eligible for membership in the Faery Queen Club. Says Mile, Soughvitz: "It thrilled me through and through and many times I rose from my seat in cheers. When I came to the part where he tells her that he meet leave her forever because after all he has another wife in San Diego I went completely berserk. Mere words cannot describe my enthusiasm. I recommend it heartily to all those desiring a good clean story." It is generally agreed that this makes the little Soughwitz girl...
...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...
Immoral Isabella? There is a salty ballad men sing when they are drunk in which Christopher Columbus pleads noisily for ships and cargo; for which he promises Isabella, queen of Spain, to bring her back Chicago. This play is written in the same spirit, but without the humor. The Queen and the mariner are represented as in love with one another, much to the regal irritation of Kind Ferdinand; costumed in his nightie. The queen is a teaser; one never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon...
Engaged. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, widow (1925) of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt; to Prince Hohenlohe Langebourg, nephew of Queen Marie of Rumania...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus Cambridge, Marquis of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, Viscount Northallerton, eldest brother of Queen Mary of the British Commonwealth of Nations, following an operation for duodenal ulcer; near Shrewsbury. Died. Albert Champion, 49, president of the A-C spark plug Company...