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Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William Allen White, watched the cavortings, went home and wrote a garrulous, kindly-shrewd editorial for his Emporia Gazette. Excerpts...
...Hill did succeed in entertaining royalty: Queen Marie of Rumania, who left several crates of royal presents, crowned the huge edifice with the words: "There is a dream built into these walls." Sam Hill's dream house, standing out among the surrounding sage brush as incongruously as a top hat in a jungle, became a famed landmark. Some said Sam Hill expected to establish a monarchy in the neighboring mountains. Others hinted that he expected his castle to serve as officers' quarters in a future war with invading Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill...
...Said H. L. Mencken, sage of Baltimore: ". . . The Hon. Mr. Roosevelt and his associated wizards are itching to horn into the great crusade to save humanity...
DEATH CAME DANCING- Kathleen Moore Knight-Crime Club ($2). At the Pollera Ball in Panama, Mrs. Richmond, native seductress, appears with her ancestral gold and jeweled headdress, and a minor English diplomat. When murder is done, Elisha Macomber, sage of Penberthy Island, Me., cleans up the mess...
Florian (M. G. M.). Lovers of fine horses may or may not enjoy seeing Robert Young somewhat gingerly ride a superb Lipizzan stallion (Florian) through this filming of an Austrian Black Beauty story by Felix Salten. They can scarcely fail to admire the stallion, who, with Charles Coburn (a sage village doctor), gives the best performance in an otherwise one-horse film...