Monday, Mar. 24, 1930
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
Queen Mary Of England visited "The Anchor," London model saloon operated by Rev. Basil Jellicoe (TIME, Oct. 28), cousin of Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (Battle of Jutland hero). The barman showed her how to draw a clear brew, demonstrated the beer pump. Emerging, said she: "I think it is a splendid place. It is so cozy and homely. I enjoyed myself tremendously."
Primo Camera, whopping big Italian fisticuffer, denied that he would marry a Miss Emelia Tersini of London. His manager characterized the affair as "merely a flirtation." He is 6 ft. 7 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. She is 5 ft. 7, brunette, comely.
Sidney Franklin (real name: Frumkin), Brooklyn matador, was tossed high, gored badly in the groin by a big, black, sharp-horned bull, in his second appearance this season at Madrid. Week before last he killed four animals in one afternoon.
New Zealand journalists foregathered at Dunedin to honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions."
Prince Carol, abdicated heir to the Rumanian throne, asked his onetime wife, Princess Helen, how she would feel if he returned home. Said she: "I have no objection."
Cinema Director King Vidor (The Big Parade, Hallelujah) pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to having filed an incorrect income tax report, paid $10,376 in fines and back taxes. His wife, Cinemactress Eleanor Boardman,, lately paid a $2,000 fine on a similar charge.
Mrs. Ella Blake watched Manhattan crowds going to see The Last Mile, smash hit play based on a document written by her son Robert the week before he was electrocuted in a Texas prison for murder last year. She did not enter the theatre. Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe (TIME, March 17) had sent her Manhattan to claim, royalties on the play.
Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, holder of the World's Automobile Speed Record (231.36 m. p. h.) was fined -L-5 ($25) in London for driving 45 m. p. h. At the hearing, a police inspector complained that Sir Henry had "nine previous convictions over a period of years."
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science has become stagnant, will ultimately become extinct unless lively technology goes to its aid.
Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones preparing to take the U. S. golf team to the English Walker Cup matches in May, found time to inspect the Atlanta Southern Association baseball team ("Crackers") practicing at Douglas, Ga. He is vice president of the club.
Mrs. Hallie Davis Elkins, relict of the late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia, moved to break the will of her late son, Stephen Jr., in Washington. Mrs. Elkins claimed that the deceased was under the influence of a Mrs. Evelyn I. Martin, to whom he left the contents of his Manhattan apartment and a Virginia fishing camp. Last month Mrs. Martin sought to restrain Mr. Elkins' brother from removing liquor from the apartment.
The manager of Edward of Wales's
ranch in Alberta went to London to buy livestock. When his employer returns from hunting in Africa they will discuss a recent discovery of oil near the ranch.
Robert H. Lucas, U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, telegraphed "Amos 'n' Andy" (real names: Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll), famed radio blackface comedy team (TIME, March 3), in response to their petition that he extend time for filing the tax return of their business enterprise--Fresh-Air Taxi Co. of America, Incorpulated: "This propolition has been most doubtful, but restention will be granted."
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