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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933.
NEW FIRST
FIRST FAMILY
OF AMERICA
SIDELIGHTS IN ROOSEVELT HOUSEHOLD
It was mentioned, in a case Marlborough-street recently that imitation banknotes headed "Swank of England" have been used for stage purposes. This fact may surprise many people; thay would be even more surprised if Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ex-worker, public speaker, author. they knew some of the other de- Governor of New York and Presi-jeditor, and founder of a furniture. vices employed by the theatre pro-dent of the United States of Amer-making guild.... She's a piece of party-master to create illusion. ica was inaugurated into office on the late President Theodore Roose-
Plays in which the actors have March 4, 1933, as chief executive velt, was educated abroad, mar to take meals give him an oppor for the next four years. He is a ried at 20.. Managed the Navy tunity to show his ingenuity. distant cousin of America's first Section of the Red Cross during the Although stage food is alten just Roosevelt, the beloved Teddy, and war. She is tall, slim and 48, toast or bread, cut into suitable also cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, with graying hair.
Wears shapes, it is dry eating, and many Governor-General of the Philippines. tailored clothes; uses no perfume Tactors favour the banana.
Roosevelt is the first Democrat to because her husband doesn't like With a banana you can do so hold che office of President since it... Likes to knit; Is a charm- bany things. Slice it, and
you Woodrow Wilson, the war Presi-ing hostess with an unforgettable have a perfect sole, a la bonne dent, and he is a staunch follower-personality. Said to be a dry, femme. The full course dinner in general if not in particular-of but otherwise in agreement with which was served in "The Man the ideal of Jefferson and Jackson her husband's policies. ‚' from Blankley's" consisted entire and Cleveland. ly of bits of banana except for meal soup.
THE PRESIDENT'S CAREER
Adverie Argument.
Franklin D. Jar.
Elliott Roosevelt, the second son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., willis 21 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, Ginger-ale is the drink most
probably become known, in the next and is the only adult member of commonly used on the stage. Apart from looking like champagne eligible young man".... Just now.
four years, us "America's must the family who didn't go to college when it sparkles, or whisky, when he is 18, and the extremely popular interested in polities.
Also claims to be the least it ip "flat," it is decidedly more Senior Prefect at Groton School, he made one
Although palatable than sugar and coloured
speech during the water or just cold tea. While some Harvard.... He is taller then his school he played football, made the from which he intends to go to: recent campaign... In preparatory actors insist on real beer, spirits
father, whom he greatly resembles, crew, and once had to argue in a are strictly banned..
and has all the social graces of a school debate that the Democratic įman-about-town .. Hasn't decided party ought to be abolished. Ho
what he wants to make of himself didn't believe it, though. --although he's considering law and nounced he didn't want to "waste polities-und is content for the time" going to college.. present to play football, row and against his family's wishes, entered . And, ride, drive his car as fast as thela New York advertising firm when law allows, and go to parties....he was 20. He's now a vice president the Broke his nose in a recent game,
... Married Miss Elizabeth Brown- fur-¡but that won't mar his appearing Donner, daughter of a Villanova, During school vacations Pa., steel manufacturer, a year ago The is expected to put a lot of young, . And now is tremendously ex-
life into the White House."
cited by the imminent prospect of becoming a father.
Your Daily Smile.
TOLD THE TRUTH. JOAN Why have you broken your engagement?
DORIS: He told me he was con 2,500 cemeteries in all nected with the movies, and ¡some
parts of the Empire is 672,000, next day I saw him driving a 27.jand eighty-six memorials have niture van.
albeen raised bearing the names of
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the missing. In what still re- CHANGED OVER NIGHT. mains to be done the Commis- LADY OF THE HOUSE: Are sioners are able to report to the you sure you're not the same man rest of the public that, by reason I gave twenty-five cents to yester- Insp. R. Shannon and Insp. and of the support that has been day to buy food? Mrs. W. Shannon wish to thank all built up by the ready and willing! BEGGAR: Certainly, lady, Why, friends for their attendance at the co-operation of all the British you said yourself I should be a funeral, flowers and messages of Governments, the future of these different man sympathy in their recent sad be-jcemeteries and memorials and grub. reavement.
after I'd ad some
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John A. Roosevelt is 16, and the
The Family "Baby".
The Eldest Son, James D. Roosevelt, Boston insurance broker, is 24 and the
He is eldest of the President's-elect four
uns Graduated from Harvard youngest of the family. in 1920 and married Miss Betsy his brothers. Has the fair hair already more than 6 feet tall, like Cushing, of Boston; they have aand blue eyes of all the Roosevelts, child, Sarah Delano, born last,
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March..
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"Jim" is 6 feet 4 inches but most resembles his mother. tall. an expert horseman, is de-Like his brothers, too, he loves to . He is bonaire, affable, and likes to talk ride and swim and sail. about his daughter... Served as an excellent dancer, and promises to page at the Democratic convention becoming as popular and charming when he was 16, says he has been as Franklin, Jr...."Johnny" interested in politics ever since, student at Groton, where. but that he never intends to run father and brothers went before But he is planning to attend for any office... Started to work him.
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the permanent provision of their maintenance are absolutely assur-f
ONE CONDITION.
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each in itself a Stone of Remem- CHILD: Doddy, when I am grown The China Mail brance, stand in peaceful gardens, up can I do what I like?
carefully tended by a small per-
FATHER: No, my sun-not imanent staff whose mission itou get married.
is to see that no sign of neglect or decay is ever allowed to mar Imperial War Graves. quiet resting-place of the dead. Clara Bow.
the beauty and repose of these
For the sympathy and forbear.
Hong Kong, Thursday, March 30, 1933.
NO RËSEMBLANCE.
SHE: Once I was taken for his way to a post-graduate degren some western college instead of
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SECOND to battered borer): The crowd's wiv yer, Basher.
PUGILIST: I wish I was wir
them.
Famous Society Beauty,
Mrs. Surah Delano Roosevelt is one of very few women who have
SHORTHAND TEST SUCCESSES.
HE: That's nothing. I've been at Boston University, but quit to the almost traditional Harvard, taken twice for grand larceny. help his father's early campaign. Polítics don't interest hira much, The Imperial War Graves ance to those to whom they were) Commission is able to record the near and dear, and for the sup-not a bit like him.
SHE: How funny, and you're Toured New England making scores though he was "sure dad would
Mas-
win." of speeches, especially in
... Horses are his particular completion last year of the con-port and encouragement receiv
Bachusetts..
hobby. Although there are several Handsome, popular structional part of its noblejed not only from the Govern-
and widely remembered for his blooded mounts at the Hyde Park work of honour to the dead. The ments of the Empire and the!
estate, his favourite is a New Mex- infectious grin. last and greatest of the War Allied Powers, but from a host
leo cow peny named "Pal-o'-Mine." Memorials that it has erected of smaller organizations and in- WAN unveiled at Thiepval on dividuals, the Vice-Chairman: off August 1, 1932, by its President, the Commission, General Sir the Prince of Wales, fifteen Fabian Ware, offers, in his in-| years after his suggestion that troduction to the report, the přp-1 the Commission should be form-¡found gratitude of all its ment ed as a Joint Committee of the bers; and they in their turn will) Governments of the Empire. In be judged by their fellow-coun- his speech at the ceremony on trymen, now and in the days to Thiepval Ridge the Prince refer-come, to have carried out the red to the memorial as the crow-difficult duty entrusted to them ning stone of the Commission's true spirit of love and care, work, and described the spirit in which that work has been executed as the first invaluable example of the way in which free nations
under
a common
Plain Words On The Gold Standard.
Facts You Did Not Know.
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Iron floats in mercury.
There is no soda in soda water.
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Abee's wings beat 2,500 times BeLand,
lived to see their sons elected to the Presidency... She's a great-] grandmother, and proud of her 77 years, though she looks younger, is erect and active... Resemblingj the younger Roosevelts, except for} her brown eyes, she is tall, brond- Ishouldered and graciously dignified
A kínswoman of the Astors,
Speed And Theory
Passes.
Under the tuition of Miss Bas-
a Sarah Delano was a famous New
York society, beauty in her day, combe the following Technical In- married James Roosevelt, railroad stitute students (Kowloon Branch) Elephants smell through their president and financier, and became have gained Pitman's Shorthand trunks, not their noses.
mistress of the 600-acre Hyde Park Certificates:
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Jestate which still is the family Theory, Stage II:-M. S. Bander, bej home.
She works in her garden, C. Bagillo, Kwok Yiu-yeung, I.* L is interested in various charities,,, Woolley, Maintains scores of old friendships, Speed: 90 words a minute: /H. but is chiefly concerned with her McCaw, 80 words a minunte? Mak 180n's comfort when he visits the Fat-ming, 20 words a minute: E.
house on week-ends..
Banker, 60 words a minute: Ho Chok-nam and Lai Hin-san.
Ardent Politician,
News In Brief.
Crown may co-operate for a com- Once more the Chancellor of Three acres of paper Cap mon object. "I ain very proud," the Exchequer has found it ad-made from a ton of wood pulp. he said, "of the result." In that visable to repeat with emphasis pride the whole nation joins, and the declaration which he has Horsehide stuffed with Leathers with good reason. Throughout the often made before that there composed the first golf balls. world, wherever ́ ́British armies will be no return to the Gold Stan-Į fought in the Great War on the dard by Great Britain until sheed with selfish mismanagement headstones marking their jis satisfied that the system will of the machine. War Debts and Anna Eleanor Dall, eldest of the graves, or memorials to the work. The British position was Reparations must be clear-five Roosevelt children, is 26... A missing, and in the volumes of authoritatively stated at Geneva ed up finally before there can be tall, athletic, willowy blonde with the printed registers the names before the Preparatory Com-any return to gold by Great Bri-blue eyes and mannerisms like her of the million dead, nine-tenths mittee of the World Conference, tain; a complete settlement on mother's... She's the wife of of whom before the War were where no commitment of any that head is n sine qua non. Cir- Curtis Bean Dall (pronounced to
The Rev. Fr. G. Byrne spoke on civilians, strange to arms," are sort was made.. But because cumstances, however, will prob-rhyme with "shall"), a member of Kong," before a meeting of the "The Problem of Education in Hong individually recorded. Never be the ultimate polley of the Eri-ably require that at least a the New York Stock Exchange University Education Society, pre- fore in history, as the Princetish Government is a return to general understanding shall be They have two children, Annesided over by Mr. Cheung Shiu-tong, said, have nations shown so gold-not necessarily the same reached on other matters more Eleanor, 4, and Curtis Roosevelt, which was held in the University tender and tenacious a deter-thing as a return at the old par or less concurrently, if only to 21 months... Mrs, Dall is mination as France and the Bri--those at home and abroad who produce the required effect upon enthusiastic about polities, went to Assembly Room last night. tish Empire to honour the wish to hasten the day are con-American opinion. But one of her first national convention, at. 14, memory of each one of their tinually throwing out sugges- the most important of these is president of two Democratic Mrs. C. H. Bradley, of Observa- dend soldiers.. And the mem-tions that Great Britain should other matters also requires for clubs, lives in North Tarrytown tory Hill, was driving her car No. bers of the War Graves Com-plunge in far more boldly than its rectification a radical change N. Y. 2 Wears perky, tailored 18449, along Waterloo Road, near the mission, in preserving the names the conditions Insisted upon by of policy on the part of the Unit-clothes, likes to travel and wanta No. 4 railway bridge, at 10.35 am. of the men and women who laid Sir Frederick. Leith-Ross at ed States and France the aban-to write, or Campaigned for Al yesterday, when a Chinese male, Iu down their lives in the service Geneva would imply, They are donment of the deliberate at Smith in 1928 and had made many Kong, auddenly ran across the road and defence of their King and always wanting Great Britain to traction and accumulation of speeches for her father this year and was knocked down by the car. Country, have earned the thanka do something spectacular in the gold which has resulted in the.. She studied agriculture atlle received injuries to the left hand of the whole Empire, for they name of giving the world a present thoroughly inequitable Cornell University, and her, great and was taken to the Kowloon Ilos- have erected a memorial that is healthy lead and restoring con- and impossible distribution of est political interest is in farms|pitel. truly national and secure fromfidence. Mr. Neville Chamber the world's gold preserves, The and farm problema,
the ravages of time for genera-lain is not unwilling to give the difficulties, it is true, are great, A Charming Hostess. tions to come, The extent of lead, but he properly insists on though Mr. Chamberlain, saya, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt will bring the work already finished in stringent conditions. It was that he does not despair of a 4 longer record of practical. Be- the construction of cemeteries not Fate which threw the world's large measure of agreement at and the necessary building opera. monetary, mechanism, Into" dis- the Conference. But it plea tions in immense..
ber
The cnum, order, it was in the main. War depends on the course of neg cnfcted – in Debts and Reparations, combits tions at: Washin
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