Monday, May. 21, 1934
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
The Councilors of Sunderland, England, voted to withdraw a resolution they passed 15 years ago conferring the freedom of the city on Admiral of the British Fleet Earl Beatty. Reason: Because Earl Beatty of the North Sea had not once visited Sunderland to receive its freedom, he no longer deserved it.
At a command performance at London's Palladium Music Hall, George V and his Queen clapped enthusiastically when 50-year-old Sophie Tucker, appearing as a "Surprise Item," bellowed: Some of these days-s-s-,
You're gonna miss me, honey-y Some of these day-y-y-s-s-s,
You're gonna feel so-o-o fnnny-y-y-y. . . . Said Bluesinger Tucker: "I thought they'd like to see and hear a real American red-hot momma, and I wasn't wrong. It was as good as being presented at court." San Franciscans flocked to their M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, gaped in perplexity at a visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin Prison voted as the most outstanding woman in public life Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, then hung an oil painting of her on the walls of their school building.
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