Monday, Apr. 23, 1934
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
To arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money.
In Paris, hard at his favorite game of tennis, Sweden's lanky, 75-year-old King Gustaf tripped chasing a ball in the second set, bruised his knee, cut his lip, banged blood from his nose. First-aided, he rejoined his professional partner, Albert Burke, won his doubles match.
While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk.
To Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland, on a visit went Lady Sylvia Ashley and Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, corespondent in Lord Ashley's suit for divorce. In Philadelphia. Pa., Mary Pickford said: "Men are like little boys-- when they are tired of being naughty they are glad to come home.'' Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st fast: "It was my literary work that kept me from fasting in February. You see, my wife does all my literary work, writing to tenants who don't pay their rent and writing to the tax collectors. . . . I planned to make a trip in May but she said the taxes had to be taken care of in May, so we went in February." Why Mr. Wills usually fasts in February: "I began fasting in February because that was the dullest month in the righting business." Why Mr. Wills fasts: "Fasting drives the impurities out of my system." How Mr. Wills fasts: "For four weeks I just sip water." How Mrs. Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything she can lay her hands on." Crawford Burton, 48, dean of U. S. hunt riders, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland at the age of 72. His son, who is 49, finished second. So you see, I'm really just a kid at the game. . . . Training? The real ones train on love and rum."
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