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Fr-iend of ours who lives in the Princcton got back to the hotel the o;:h~r morning at 4 and suddenly recalled he had forgotten his key. "Honey," he yelled. "please throw clown the key'" 1 ineteen keys fell at his feet. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •1
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. Per-sons We Could Worry Along Without· La Marquise· 'de. Fontenoy (of the Slm) . Joe Vila (of ditto) Old Doc Riesenfe1d
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In spite of the most specialized effort errors will creep into BREVITIES. For instance. last" month, in a moment of temporary aberration, we described someone called Margaret Kay as "a cute little armful." Will you forgive us?
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THANK YOUI News of the present whereabouts of Mary B. Preston and Cardinal Peairs would be greatly appreciated by BREVITIES, Inc.
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Adenoid Item Is it true that Erminie Gagnon, who vamped in "The Man Who Pays," contends that the point she most admires about Pedro de Cordoba are his nostrils.
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One of the in the moving picture business is "Buddy" Shyer. He comes from dear old Tennessee, and it must be the sunshine in his ways that causes palpitation in all the female bosoms that come near.him.
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The Arbuckle case has certainly stirred up a lot of hornets' nests. Skeletons have come tumbling out of one closet after another since the illfated party at the St. Francis Hotel. For instance, we hear that no less a screen fixture than D. F - - was obliged to pack up and leave Tulsa, Okla. two or three weeks ago, for indiscreet advances made to a certain young lady recently honored as the most beautiful American girl. Our inforillant on the Coast adds that D. F's exit had all the features of an "excited populace" about it.
"DO IT NOW" Lawrence Grossmith, who plays the much married novelist in William Faversham's "The Silver Fox," was a guest at the Dinsmore wedding, subsequently attending the reception at the home of Mrs. Vincent Astor at 640 Fifth Avenue. Which of course· is "II tremendously thrilling. But the wedding wasn't. The bridegroom didn't drop the ring, nor the bride even a curtsy, and all the sub-debs told their jokes in discreet whispers. Vol e couldn't help overhearing one, though. It was something about a couple who were married in the early morning and had a wed?ing brea,kf~st at nine. One of the bndegroom s 111timate friends, who had been out of town and had just heard that his best . friend was about to commit matrimony, ru~hed in on them. "When's the wedding?" he panted. "Why we were married this morning," they answered ecs·tatically. "What a ghastly thing to do," he murmured, "what on earth will you do with yourselves all day'" One of the other sub-debs tried to improve upon the story by pulling something abo.tit a card with one of those helpful busll1ess mottoes on them, that hung on a des~ which was a wedding present-b~lt It . wouldll't interest you.
WHITE LILIES ARE PLACED IN THE HANDS OF DEAD ONES
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ARE FOUND IN THE HANDS OF LIVE ONES For direct information
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MARIE DORO in "LILIES TOJE FIELD" With NORMAN TREVOR
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