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...Viscount received from Ottawa's sturdy Evening Citizen: "He [Snowden] is on record as having kowtowed as Chancellor to the Lords of 'sound' money just as much as Ramsay MacDonald has been Chanticleer in the hen-run of society dowagers. The Prime Minister's chaste cheek may have been impressed with various flavors of London society's lipstick, but Comrade Snowden is in the House of Lords because he kissed the seats of London's international moneylenders...
...numbers of White Russians settled in the country and King Alexander's sentimental memories of his youth as a page at the court of Nicholas II? 4) Can the three countries adopt a united front against the growing power of Benito Mussolini in the Balkans? Should tongue-in-cheek approval be given to Adolf Hitler...
Eighteen years ago, Mary Pickford made her admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...
...TIGER by Don Skene (Appleton-Century, $1.50) Funny -- and pumy. A tongue-in-the-cheek torne about prize fighters. Introduction by Damon Runyon to this writer's "first" sets a fast pace. The book keeps...
...production has the ring of authenticity, the small details having been apparently well taken care of. Quite evident is the fact that the picture has been produced under the new "spotless" regime, there being nary a line that could bring even a blush to your grandmother's cheek. The nearest approach is by Mercedes (Elissa Landi) who, when in the course of a discussion of Dante's qualifications for marriage it was remarked that he "had no family," coyly retorted that she "would give...