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Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...
...George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time...
Further skittish developments include sequences in which Morgan, hell-bent on revenge, tries to enjoin Wendy from appearing in Curson's dress show; a ballroom scene where Wendy wins the prize with a Curson creation, having effectively removed her nearest rival by unraveling her dress; a grand finale in which Curson, using the sets from his wife's bankrupt stage show, puts on a musical dress revue which snatches his own business from disaster's verge...
...Belgium with France at the head. In the future it is conceivable that an alliance between Russia and Germany might be the greatest source of anxiety to English statesmen. But just at present it is France and her lesser associates, France with her powerful army, that is worrying Lord Curson and the rest...
...recently issued his strong pronunciamento calling in question the legality of France's move into the Ruhr. Then last week Premier Baldwin had a conference with premier Ponicare the nature of which has been kept profoundly secret. It seems almost impossible for the English government to eat Lord Curson's strong statements, yet on the other hand continued opposition to the occupation is far more difficult now that France has succeeded in overcoming "passive resistance...