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The Washington times., 1935-10-14
'Pompeii' Due
Wednesday

Word now comes that "The
Last Days of Pompeii" will open
at R.-K.-O.-Keith's on Wednesday
This picture brings to the
screen what is described as the
most spectacularly thrilling eli
max yet pictured, disclosing the
smashing destruction of an entire
city by volcanic eruption, earth
quake and fire.
Entire sections Of the ancient
city, including the Temple Of
Jupiter, the Forum, private
homes, the arena, streets, shops
and wharves, were reproduced in
Hollywood only to be destroyed
in the reenactment of the his
toric eruption of Vesuvius.
Duplicating the original erup-
tion as records indicate it &C.
Cured, the first effect is that
of repeated earthquakes which
wrench the city apart. Long
distance camera shots through
the open squares and streets show
hundreds of people struggling
madly to escape to the sea. some
trampling each other in their
panic, others crushed by toppling
walls.
Horses. wild with fear, drag
driverless chariots through the
streets, hurting to death those
caught in their path; the srena
topples and falls, smashing slave
and nobleman alike. Heavy
columns from temples and public
buildings splinter apart, crushing
hundreds. A river of molten lava
breaks through the ground, boil
ing UP from an abyss hidden deep
in the earth.
The majestic Temple of Jupiter
slowly cracks and crashes to ruins,
sweeping screaming victims into
the blazing stream of molten rock.
To finn these sequences, which
pre- views disclose as just what is
claimed - truly spectacular - the
services of thousands of extras
beside the feature players were
required. Preston Foster is cast
in the leading role, with other
principal parts played by Alan
Hale, Basil Rathbone, John Wood,
Louis Calhern, David Holt, Dor
othy Wilson and Wyrley Birch.
The Last Days of Pompeii" was
produced by Merriam C. Cooper
and directed by Ernest Schoed-
sack. a Hollywood duo responsible
for many outstanding pictures,
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Call of Mild
Returning

call of the Wild" the colorful
perturbation Of Jack London's ad-
venture classic, will resume its
downtown run with a third week
at Loew's Columbia starting next
Friday.
Clark Gable and Loretta Young
occupy the principal roles with
Jack Oakie and Buck, new Won
der dog, sharing stellar honors.
other capable screen figures fill
supporting roles in this exciting
picture that gives vivid life to one
Of the most widely read of Jack
London'S classics.
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much better opportunity than II
received Saturday night.
Arch Mcdonald, known to all
who listen to baseball broadcaStS
and sports comments over the ra
dio. Announcer Mcdonald, a little
forlorn as a story teller, is happier
swapping patter with Emcee God
frey and socks over the finale by
leading, In a 10-gallon hat, the
Fox band through his radio theme
tune, They Cut Down the Ole
Pine Tree" z
There it is then. The F Street
entertainment world series, Broad
way VS.. Washington. I think the
hits go to Gene Ford's home cap
tanned team.
Venus In Silks" Dies
''Venus in Silk" folded for good
on Saturday night. The decision
to end the life of the Lawrence
Schwab operetta was reached on
Thursday night after New York
experts had looked over the show
at the National Theater and de
cided that only major operation
Of revision could save it or make
it eligible for the Broadway hit
class.
So the scenery was left on the
National Theater stage, the
company was dismissed and
Venus In Silk" goes into the
record book as a flop. am
among those who think there
were so many good things in the
Schwab musical it was worth say.
ing. Particularly the Robert
Stolz score and that fine third
act.
Gloom was so thick around the
back stage at the National Sat.
urday night you could have cut
it with a dull butter knife. Why
not? Five weeks of the hardest
kind of rehearsal and only two
pay days.
Among those who found a
lit joy in the outlook was Bari
tone j. Harold Murray. For only
that day he had received a letter
from his agent notifying him
Universal desired him to make
an immediate screen test for the
role Of Ravenal in Show Boat" /"
Actor Murray should make a
great Ravenal opposite Irene
Dunne's Magnolia in the screen
version of Jerome Kern's musi.
cal
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eII-KeeIer Lead

Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler's
"Shipmates Forever" leaped into
the box office lead over the week.
end and is racing along towards
a record week at the Earle The
ater. The U. S. Navy will get a
kick out of it if the Annapolis pic
ture is a bigger success than
Filtration Walk" which featured
West Point. On the first showings
it appears like an even money
bet on the Navy.
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the throne OF
popularity o +
t h e famous
How Id Is
A n M" puzzle
which had the
nation guessing
a few years ago.
Dick Powell
a n d r u b y
Keeler brought
1t back with
them when they
returned from
the u n | t e d
States N av a ]
A C a d e m y at
A n n a p o ! i S
RI
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rancho Star Envy
Of Fashion Mentors

Gladys Swarthout's nutria coat
with it's lining Of tomato-colored
worsted looks almost too smart to
describe when worn over a simple
frock of black crepe. Somehow
this star of Rose of the Rancho
can combine unheard-of colors
with a result of fashion flair
which has certain other Holly
wood style arbiterS guessing,
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where Chey 1lnISneu SnlpMdJeS
Forever" now showing at the
Earle Theater.
Ruby says she found it in an
old book. Dick was her first
victim. Following her instructions,
he multiplied his age by two,
added five, multiplied that total
by so, subtracted 365 and added
to that total the amount Of small
change-under one dollar-that
he had in his pocket. He then
gave Miss Keeler the grand total.
With no questions and within
half a minute Ruby told him his
age and the amount of change
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M OWE
A'ACLOCK

FOX-Nino Martini, Genevieve
Tobin in Here's to Romance"
1850 a. M, 1870, 4:20, 7:10,
1000 p. m. Stage-12:30,
3:20, 6:10. 900 p. m.
PALACE-Jack Benney, Eleanor
Powell in Broadway Melody"
IL, 2:25, 4:45, ITO, $50
p. m.
COLUMBIA-Zane Grey's Dean
Jaeger in "Wanderer of the
Wasteland"-11:15 a. M, 1:05,
2:55. 4:45, $50, 500, 1910
p. m.
METROPOLITAN ELISA
Landi. Paul Cavanagh in
Without Regret" q. m,
1875, 2:25, AIS, sos, 7:50.
9:4n p. m.
EARLE-Dick Powell, Ruby
Keeler in "Shipmates For
ever"-9:3O a. M, 1900. 2:30,
500, 7:30, 1000 p. m. Stage
1925 a. M, 1:55, 4:30, TOO,
$50 p. m.
BELASCO-"Born For Glory"
1915, 2:14, Alb, 6:12, 8:11,
1910 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S-Edward Arnold
in Diamond Jim," 11:15 a. M,
1:21. 1927. 7:39 and 9:45 p. m.
LITTLE-Charles Laughton in
Private Life of Henry VIII"
-10:30 a. M, 1922, 2:14,
4:O6, 5:58, 7:50, 9:42 p. m.
HOWARD-Sybil Jason in Lit
tie Big Shot"-12:30, 500.
$50. 500. 1890 p. m. Stage
Lucky Millinder and Mills,
Blue Rhythm Band, las,
AIS, 6:45, 9:15 p. m.
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who don't care to puzzle it out,
the solution is to add one to the
first two figures Of the grand
total and Is to the last two fig
ures Of the grand total.
A person whose grand total
was 3045 would be 81 years old
and would have so cents in his
pocket.
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per-week unit, resulted In using up new bot
tie of red ink instead of turning in a profit,
the present group of entertainers, costing less
than one-third as much, will give the theater
a substantial dividend when the seven days
count-up is tabulated next Thursday night.
The magic of the names of Lou Holtz, Belle
Baker, Block and Sully, etc., sufficient to
crowd theaters in the New York area, does
not extend to Potomac shores. 1t is not the
first time that F Street has rejected names of
eminence in the vaudeville world. Phil Ba-
kers unit at $500 per week laid-what the
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audiences want new faces and
fresh material. I think it also
proves conclusively that the
sophisticated New York audiences
like a different type of entertain
ment than the family groups
which gather in Washington's S
first run movies. It has been
demonstrated time and time again
that smut is no guarantee of sue.
cess on F Street regardless of
whether Broadway prefers it.
The Arthur Godfrey-Arch NC
Donald entertainment has no
names that would spell hoorah in
the land Of LaGuardia. 1t has a
pretty capable group of the run.
of-the-mine vaudeville entertain
ers sustained by two radio per.
sonalitieS with a substantial local
following. Let's examine the line.
4 up at the Fox this week.
GOOD SpeciaIties
3 We have Arthur Godfrey,
whose languid ad-libbing is famil-
lar to those who tune in WJSV
in the early morning and for
moon dial programs. Godfrey
leads a good band-which would
score more heavily with better
known popular numbers such as
"Cheek to Cheek" I'm In The
Mood For Love-" etc.-and then
goes in for good lusty knockabout
with an energetic comedienne
known as Nell Kelly.
Said Nell Kelly (no relation)
checks in with a good score card
aided by a Garbo burleSque and
some songs so robustly trimmed
they are different.
- There is Ray SAKE, a youth
who can play a saxophone with
one hand, twirl a rope with an.
other, and dance all at the same
time. A combination of artfuI
tricks good for any kind Of vaude,
vile.
Tom and Betty Wonder (who
should be closing the show, a
youthful dancing team Of brother
and sister, who have an uncanny
knowledge Of what audiences like
and proceed to give it to them
They are full blown and ripe for
the better musical comedy.
Annette Ames, a half-pint tap
dancing cutie, who makes pleas
ing stage contrast to the ample
Arch Mcdonald, who introduces
her and serves as a dignified
Stooge.
Robert Macdonald, whose voice
!, Is so rich and good it deserves q
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he was carry
ing. Clever per-
sons these tap
dancers.
T wo hours
! a ter, h e
whole cast of
the m u sic al
drama, includ-
in g L e W l S
Stone, Johnny
Arledge, Mar.
ina NJ E T I ! l !,
E d die Acuff,
R oSS AleXan.
der, Joe Saw
yer and Mary
Ernnn rrnr hr,r
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Blame the Picture

Blame the Picture
Now it is the contention of Mr..
Holtz that no living performer
would exert enough pulling power
to overcome the nonappeal Of
such a picture as Laurel and
Hardy's I'm Bonnie Scotland, "
which was the screen accompani-
ment for their stage program.
There may be some truth in his
plea but against it is the
fact that the Major Bowes Unit
No. ! of Amateurs was able to
roll up a fat dividend in both
Richmond and Norfolk, Va, with
a picture called Here Comes the
Band" a Ted Lewis confection
that had very little box office
power.
No, I think it resolves itself
down to the fact that vaudeville
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BROADWAY VS.. LOCAL NAMES
Godfrey Mcdonald Revue is
Demonstrating Pulling Power
With F Street Audiences
Rv ANDREW r. KELLEY

Streets declaration of independence to the Broadway
bookers manifest by the of the Godfrey
revue showing four times daily the
Fox Theater stage.
Whereas the hghestpad vaudeville show touring $O5OO
The Washington times., 1935-10-14
Here's Trick in Figures That
Makes You Life of the PARTY

Hollywood is baffled by a new
game which is sweeping every set
and which threatens to ascend to
The Washington times., 1935-10-14

ing the game and Director Frank
Borzage had a hard time getting
them back to business.
For the information of those
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have been perssteny cold to the humors of Milton Be Ted
Heav and others whose monckers much in Broadway
E0h
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Kiepura in the gentle art Of
speaking English properly.
The Washington times., 1935-12-05
Dinner Party
For Envoy

The United States Minister to
Denmark, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen,
was the guest in whose honor
Mrs. Henry L. Doherty enter
tanned at a dinner last evening
at the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York. Miss Helen Lee Doherty,
daughter of the hostess, was
among the guests, who were re-
ceived in her apartment and later
taken to the Sert Room for din
ner.
Lady Lister-Kaye. who arrived
on the Majestic from England, is
at the Ambassador Hotel, in New
York city. Lady Lister-Kaye, who
is the widow of Sir John PepyS
Lister-Kaye, has been enjoying the
busy social season in London,
since the Silver Jubilee. A close
friend of King George and Queen
Mary, she was invited to numer-
GUS large functions at Bucking-
ham Palace.
Lady Lister-Kaye will be in New
York for an extended stay before
coming to Washington for her
annual visit.
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Honors
House Guests

Mrs. John M. Waters enter
tanned at dinner at the Women's
City Club last evening in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas w. Alex
ander, of Asheville, N. c.. Who are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Waters
at their home in Wesley Heights.
Other house guests include Mr..
and Mrs. Veda Gonzales. of New
York and Madrid, Spain.
The dinner party was a fare
well for the guests, as Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander will leave for an aerial
trip which will touch every coun-
try in Central and South America.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gonzales will
leave next week for an extended
tour through the Orient.
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>Army-Navy game as they had
planned and a gala dance to
follow, DR.. and Mrs. "Ned'
Pickford have remained in
town and all because Of an un-
ruly appendix which the Mrs.
developed along about satur-
day.
Happily we report that she
is making a splendid recovery
and that the "man of t h e
house" promises that she shall
be home to celebrate her birth
day anniversary on the 11th.
"Mr. Hemingway" the wise
little Scottie which has always
been Ned's constant compan.
ion, has been sent out to the
country to be with the doctor s
parents and as a substitute the
Pickfords-she is the former
Marian Ostermayer-have a
Pekinese which they h av e
dubbed "Super Suds."
Two who have recently
joined the "mother-in-law
class" and who are much too
young to be so designated, are
Mrs. Philip o. Coffin, mother
of the former Alicia Rodgers,
who recently became Mrs. John
F. Sweeney, and Mrs. Thomas
Bell Sweeney, mother of the
bridegroom. They. were doing
some Christmas shopping and
each very >striking-looking in
costumes of black, Mrs. Swee-
ney's Persian lamb topped off
by a smart tam o'shanter of
the fur, which was just right,
and Mrs. Coffin's chic little
felt hat was worn at a becom-
ing angle.
Stopping all too briefly in
the Capital, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
j. MacGowan, and their attrac-
tive daughter, Emily, passed
through this week from their
home in Montreal en- route to
Florida, where they propose to
remain until April, when they
will come back to Washington
for a longer visit.
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James Roosevelt of theH ArmyNavy game they ha
President and Mrs Roosevelt planned and gala dance
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Return to Capital

DR.. and Mrs. Herbert Wollner,
the latter Gertrude Price Wollner,
pianist of New York, have just re-
turned from a visit in New York
and are again at their home at
the WestcheSter. DR.. Wollner Is
consulting chemist to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
Mrs. Wollner will be heard in q
recital on Sunday evening, De-
cember IS, for which Mrs. Ethel
Hoffman Kane has sent out invi-
tations, the recital to be given in
the Kane studio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fayette B. Dow
are in New York for brief visit.
He will return tomorrow and she
is expected Saturday.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward StineSs, OF
Providence, R. l., are at the Dodge
while in the Capital.
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707Q,n T0biCs
Copyright IO3SI

James Roosevelt, son of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
flew from Warm Springs,
where he has been with his
father, to Palm Beach, Fla,
where he is the guest of Mr..
Joseph P. Kennedy, former
head of the Securities-Ex-
change Commission. They will
remain in the South a week
before returning to New York.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
nedy were in the Capital they
occupied Marwood, the lovely
estate of Mrs. Samuel K.
Martin Sd. out on the River
Road.
Emily Newell Blair, chair
man of the Advisory Council
of the Consumers Division of
the NRA, well-known author
and lecturer, and, in private
life Mrs. Harry W. Blair, wife
of the Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, will receive the honorary
degree of Doctor of Letters at
the inauguration exercises of
DR.. John A. Schaeffer to the
presidency of Franklin and
Marshall College in Lancaster,
Pa, tomorrow. DR.. William
Mather Lewis, president of
G. W., will deliver the inau-
gural address and receive the
degree of Doctor of Laws.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lit
tauer, who divide their time
between their Paris home and
Washington, where their SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Eldon Doeller,
live, were the guests in whose
honor Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Brown entertained at dinner
in their New York residence
Tuesday evening.
Prospect Hill, the Virginia
residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Doeller, was destroyed by fire
a few years ago. They have
rebuilt it and now spend much
time there.
Instead of attending t h e
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Tea Dance for
Miss Glover

The former Assistant Post
master General. Mr.. Warren 1rv.
ing Glover, will entertain at a
tea dance in the ballroom at
Wardman Park Hotel, from 4
until 7 o'clock on Friday, January
3, when he will present his daugh,
ter, Miss Frances Glover, to Capt.
tai society. Later the group assist
ing the debutante and their es-
corts will be guests at a buffet
supper. to be followed by dancing.
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NoQ4 canpAm

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
who has been at "the farm" at
Fishkill, N. Y, and more recently
in New York for a day or two.
arrived in town yesterday to rejoin
Mr.. Morgenthau, Secretary of the
Treasury, at their home on r
Street.
X X
The Secretary to the American
Legation in Bogota, Colombia, Mr..
Winthrop S. Greene, will sail to-
morrow from New York for Eng
land, where he will spend a por-
ton of his leave of absence.
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Group Of Diplomats Guests Of
Mr. DemetriOs SiCiIanOS at
Legation Luncheon

The Minister of Greece, Mr.. DemetriOs Sici-
ianos was host at luncheon yesterday at the
Legation His guests included the Ambassador of Belgium
Count Robert der Saten Ponthoz the Minister of Swze
land and Nine Peter the Minister of Bulgaria and Nine etro
Tchomakoff, the Minister of Yugosava and Nine Fotch,
Nine de Lima the Charge dAares of Spain and Sonora de
Yrujo Mr. and Mrs Chandler Anderson Senorta Zoe Pae
Mr. Ernest Schaer aache of the Legation of Swzer
land Mrs McKenney Malan Mrs Natalie Campbell Prchett,
and the counselor of the Greek legation Mr. Nicholas G. Ley
Minister of Switzerland and Nine Peter the Minister of
dor of Belgium Count Robert der StratenPonthoz the
Legation. His guests included Nine. de Lima the Ambassa
Yugoslava and Nine Fotich the Charge Afares Of Spain
Bulgaria and Nine PetroM Tchomakoff the Minister of
and Sonora de Yrujo Mr.. and Mrs Chandler Anderson,
Legation of Swzerand Mrs McKenney Mallan Mrs Natalie
Senorta Zoe Patterson, Mr. Ernest Shaer Aache Of the
Campbell Prchett and the Counselor of the Greek legation
Mr. Nioho n Tov
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Ball Patroness

Mrs. Roosevelt heads the list
Of patronesses sponsoring an
inter-school and college dance at
the Biltmore Hotel, in New York,
December 81, for the benefit of
Hope Farm, in DutcheSs county,
not far from Hyde Park.
Others are Mrs. Jorge R.
Andre, jr., Mrs. Robert ogden
Bacon, Mrs. Robert ogden Bacon,
jr., Mrs. Harry I. Caesar, Mrs.
Harold w. Carhart, Mrs. Charles
Suydam Cutting. Mrs. Oliver D.
Filley, Mrs. Francis P. Garvan,
Mrs. Benjamin K. Gatins, Mrs.
Lawrence Lewis Gillespie. Mrs.
Harold R. MixSell, Mrs. M. Tay-
lor Pine, jr., Mrs. Richard S..
Reynolds, Mrs. John D. Rocke-
feller, jr., Mrs. Kermit RooSe-
welt. Mrs. David Wagstaff, Mrs.
Elisha Walker, Mrs. Graham
Youngs and Miss Juliana Cut
ting.
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Party

Mrs. John McMullen and her
daughter, Miss Margaret McMul-
len, will give a luncheon at the
Shoreham tomorrow for Miss
Mary Blythe Patterson, daughter
of Mrs. Samuel Finley Patterson,
who will make her debut next
Tuesday.
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The members Of the mems floor
committee are Maj. Gen. Frede-
rick w. Coleman, Brig. Gen. Perry
Miles, Col. Edward Clifford, DR..
Stanley K. Hornbeck, Mr.. Frank
lin RoudybuSh and Mr.. John Nc
Clure.
DebS Entertained
Also in the evening-for the
younger Set-there will be the
dance which Miss Margaret Speir,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Jackson Speir, will give in the
main ballroom of 2400 Sixteenth
Street. This promises to be an
other of those jolly affairs with
much tinkling laughter and merry
groups between dances. chatting
about the gay mad whirl, past
and present.
The little burnette subdeb will
have assisting her Miss Sylvine
Clagett, Miss Mary Patterson,
Miss Frances Humphrey, Miss
Catherine McKane, Miss Gloria
Grosvenor, Miss Dorothy Fox,
Miss Alice Clarke, Miss Anna
Lee Stuart, Miss Laura johnson,
Miss Randolph Richardson. Miss
Jean Gilbert, Miss Mary Senate
Howes, Miss Bette Hartz and Miss
Catherine Friant.
Miss Ficklen Hostess
On the following day Miss Imo-
gen Stuart Ficklen, daughter of
Mrs. Samuel Pannill Ffcklen, will
be hostess at luncheon in honor
of Miss Anna Lee Stuart at the
Shoreham Hotel.
In the afternoon Miss Alice
Clarke will be presented to society
at tea to be given by her mother,
Mrs. j. Brent Clarke, in their apart
ment at the Cordova. Others max
ing their debutS in the afternoon
are Miss Constance Marlatt and
Miss Mary Wells They will make
their bows together at tea Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Lester Marlatt
and Mr.. Hewitt Wells will give in
the Marlatt home on Sixteenth
Street.
That evening Miss Nancy Letter,
debutante daughter of Mrs. Thomas
Letter, will be the honor guest at
the dance to be given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Benning Spencer at
Grasslands.
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III X
Nine. WadSted, wife of the Min.
lister Of Denmark, and their small
son, Otto, will arrive tomorrow
in New York on the S. S. Hensa
from Europe, and will be welcomed
by the Minister. They remained
in Paris for some weeks after Mr..
Wadsted returned to washington.
Little Otto will celebrate his
second birthday on Friday when
he lands, with the promise of a
cake and two pink candles to
mark the event. One of the most
widely travelled babies, he has
already crossed the ocean four
times and in foreign measure
ments of distances has Travelled
5000 kilometers overland.
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Says:
Dolly Cameron Says:
END OF WEEK HAS MANY. PARTIES
Days Are Well Filled With Luncheons, Teas and
Dances for Younger Set the First Friday
Evening Dancing Class to Meet 7 tomorrow
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