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...days later U. S. prestige recovered a bit when the State Department announced that "the fraud consisted in underweighing bales of merchandise consigned to the importers," ordered Minister Norman Armour to waive Collector Johnson's immunity as a treaty official, turn him over to the Haitian courts for trial...
...Siamese himself, Supervisor Sheehan soon found his Princeton charge a bit of a problem. So did Princeton officials, who obviously could not crudely oust an H. R. H. Last year the Legation heard to its dismay that Boxer Prince Prasob, 18, was planning to marry a Manhattan dance hall hostess. From Siam King Prajadhipok squelched the notion (TIME, June...
Although Taylor was a bit erratic in the first and third, he settled down and pitched a better game than McHale, allowing six hits, and fanning eight men, while the Grad twirler was touched for eight hits, and retired four...
...Tracy, as the newspaperman arrant, is in his element, perhaps a bit too much so. Apparently, he has talked as loudly in the studio as in the picture, with the result that some of the minor roles, notably that of Kate, are neglected. Exceedingly competent acting on the part of James Gleason, who plays Lefty, Thomas' assistant, and on the part of Una Merkel, who portrays the fickle femininity of the story, is enough to save the rather weak plot and the overemphasis on Mr. Tracy. The photography contains nothing unusual, except for the introduction of a former Pathe News...
...Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge of a happy beginning when the forest fire broke. The end came like an old-fashioned melodrama, a bit more circumstantial but not a bit more convincing...