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...think, however that you misrepresented old Peter slightly. According to you he was somewhat of a ladies' man and a bit primitive, what's more. He was killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...
...frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed of at least 300 m.p.h. ... I had hoped to approach within at least 15 miles...
...Hold that!" was His Royal Highness' cry when he wanted a choice bit run through a second time. Bits dated as far back as 1910, when this Edward became Prince of Wales on the death of Edward VII. Good bits: a springing tiger shot by H. R. H. in India; huge Archie Compstoa teaching him to golf...
Maurice Colburne is the detestable prince who opens his interview with Princess Anne by informing her "I don't like you." Our personal opinion that his makeup and accent were a bit obvious was overridden by the audience in general which seemed happily affected by all that went...
...beauty of "Miss Lulu Bett" lies not in the plot, which is perhaps a bit obvious at times, but in the superb characterization of Middle-Western family life, admirably carried out by an able cast. Francis G. Cleveland, as the dentist who loves nothing better than to read the evening paper undisturbed and to rule his family with an iron hand, plays his part capably. So also does Marjorie Holman, as the lady of the household who thinks entirely in terms of what the neighbors will think about this and that. The whole cast, in fact; is well chosen...