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When Margot Einstein was married to Dr. Dimitri Marianov at a Berlin registry office, her father, Physicist Albert Einstein, said that he would attend the ceremony if it could take place in 30 min. He attended in celluloid collar, battered hat, aged raincoat. Impatient when the nuptials took 60 min., he vigorously protested against being photographed. Then he hustled back to his soundproof study. Said his wife: "It was a case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think the world of our new son-in-law." Next day Professor & Frau Einstein left for Antwerp to embark for the U. S.
Racehorse Lady Broadcast, property of Banker Rogers Caldwell, head of Caldwell & Co. whose recent crash precipitated bank failures throughout the South (TIME, Dec. 1), ran second in a race at Bowie (Md.) track on Thanksgiving Day. It was the last race in which the Caldwell colors will appear. Banker Caldwell is selling his stables, turning farmer.
Earl Sande, premier U. S. jockey, made his debut as a professional tenor at the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Va., sang "Mother Machree" and "Bird Songs at Eventide." Asked after the performance how he had felt, said he: "Well, I was kinda nervous."
It became known that Artist Peter Arno (The New Yorker), having designed the sets for a revue called The New Yorkers, was denied admission to the New York Scenic Artists Union. His designs had to be redrawn by someone else before the scenery could be constructed.
Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received it. . . . I'd have felt the same way about Ernest Hemingway. He'll get it some day, but I suppose he hasn't written enough yet. I think Hemingway will get the award in ten years. Then there is Willa Cather. No one writes better."
"I've been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote—have I or have I not any sex appeal?" — Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club.
The late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales: $58,500.