Members of the Oxford Union of Oxford University, "home of lost causes," elected Eduard Benes to honorary membership.
Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail.
Because their humor is "non-Aryan" and therefore not officially funny, Rome's Fascist newspaper Il Tevere urged all good Italians to boycott films showing Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers and the Marx Brothers. Making a big muscle, Il Tevere added: "The Marx Brothers are only a big bluff."
At a meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Richmond, Va., James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney confessed that he had been a truant in his youth, and a persistent one: "To be a successful truant in a modern city requires considerable resourcefulness, as you people undoubtedly know."
Appearing In Scotland at Balmoral Castle's annual Ghillie Ball, Great Britain's King George & Queen Elizabeth satisfactorily showed their democratic sovereignty by dancing for two hours among their shuffling, jostling tenants, taking a right royal try at the Palais Glide and the Lambeth Walk.
* According to Who's Who, she is 48.