Monday, Nov. 15, 1937
"Names make News." Last week these names made this news:
When King Carol II of Rumania and Crown Prince Michael, onetime (1927-30) King, went shooting with Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes, the King barely nosed out the Prince in a playful massacre. In six hours Michael with his shotgun slaughtered 506 pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits. His able father made a Bohemian holiday by shooting 520.
Graduated last summer from Harvard, a three-year high-honors A.B., and promptly married, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. grandson of President Roosevelt I, was appointed assistant in history at his university, in whose graduate school he is striving for a master's degree.
In the vestibule of his smart Back Bay, Boston, home, George Hastings Swift, 59, a director of Swift & Co., packers, was set upon by three holdup men. Drawing a revolver he fired one ineffectual shot before he was knocked on the head, disarmed, beaten, robbed of a $2,000 Oriental pearl and over $300 cash.
Thinking he and his wife had waited long enough for a Paris hotel elevator, Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, U. S. N., Retired, opened the shaft door, peered down to see if the car was coming up. Descending instead of ascending it cracked him on the crown, sent him to a hospital with an injured head.
Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality."
Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk the cow."
Oliva Dionne, manly father of the famed quintuplets and--as is apt to be forgotten--of six other children too, said good-by to his famed five who chanted: "Reviens, papa, demain. Demain, sans faute." Three days later he was seeing the sights of New York City, having his first airplane ride. Said he: "For eight or nine years, ever since I first saw airships flying over North Bay, Callander and Corbeil, Ont.--on the lookout for forest fires, you know--I've wanted to fly. It's the biggest thrill of my life, since the birth of the quints."
At her cottage in Mineral Springs, Ark., 66-year-old Widow Annie Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers.
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