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t GENERAL NEWS OF DAY f $ Veloz and Yolanda, the most famous of present ballroom dancing teams, it is reported, will retire at the end of the current year. The noted pair, who are man and wife in private life, have earned over a half million since 1933. Con Conrad, 49, song writer, died Thursday at Van Nuys, near Hollywood, California, where he had been staying for his health. Conrad, whose real name was Conrad Dober, wrote "Margie" and "Colorado Sunset." Engineering construction this week continued above a year ago for the eleventh consecutive week, according to the Engineering New"-Recorch- Itza Kiszley, beautiful blond soprano of the Budapest Civic Opera Company is now appearing as guest artist at Robert and Max Eitels Old Heidelberg Inn. Miss Kiszley was born in Hungary, and has studied at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest; St. Cecilia Conservatoire, Rome, and with our own Herbert Witherspoon in Chicago. An island paradise is the magnificent 00,000 residence of Doris Duke Cromwell under construction in Honolulu. It includes a tennis court, swimming pool, tropical garden and yacht anchorage hewn from black lava rock. Queen Mary of England is suffering from laryngitis, it was stated officially Saturday. One Englishman at Leeds reaped a neat little .profit from Englands midweek war scare. The last five feet of a nine-foot trench Henry Varley dug to Shelter his fam- ily from air raids, turned out to be coal. He shoveled out two tons and there was no sign the new seam was near exhaustion. President Roosevelt is four per cent more popular now than in 1936 but the balance in the popularity scales weighs against his New Deal associates, the magazine Fortune reported in a survey of public opinion. Ronald Colman, English movie star, and Benita Hume, also English and of the movies, were married at San Ysidrb Ranch, near. Santa Barbara, Calif., Friday night, by a judge. Their attendants were Heather Thatcher, actress, and Col. Tim McCoy,, , western picture star. ,
