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...President Hoover signed a bill directing the War Department to purchase its supplies within the U. S. even when they cost a bit more than abroad. The Department has lately been charged with using Russian matches...
...race. Boiling mad, Mr. Smith flashed back: "You are trying to put me in a false light with my friends in Massachusetts. . . . I welcome their support. . . . I battled hard for the principles they stand for and I am ready to do so again. . . . Your telegram seems to me a bit tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into the field, it became plain...
...atmosphere of wistfulness and unreality. These qualities she puts to good advantage in Alice, the tale of a woman plagued by her children's bungling and over-zealous attentions. The Old Lady, which relates the adoption of a rowdy War hero by a pitiful charwoman, is cut a bit too rough to suit Actress Taylor's style. But many a Taylor and Barrie fan who goes to see this bill will come away well satisfied...
...city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn out to be. Though his clairvoyant accusation carries no legal weight, subsequent tests confirm his prophetic powers. He is taken up as a curiosity by Millionaire Bassan, falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according...
...least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with...