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Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
Scotland Yard. Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...again they fell to. The young, less experienced, saw his opponent's blade arch, flicker, fall. Cleanly the sabre skewered his face from nose to mouth. He stood motionless...
Chairman of the metals subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, onetime attorney for U. S. Steel Corp. Well he knew what the steelman wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract...
...daily port-to-port races as the cruise progressed?Morris Cove to Greenport, Greenport to Montauk, etc. etc.? arch-competitors were the celebrated Vanitie and Resolute, big international cup racers. The Resolute, owned by E. Walter Clarke of Philadelphia, beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, in 1920. Lately, and last week, she has lost consistently to the Vanitie, which Gerald Lambert bought last year from Harry Payne Whitney...