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Meanwhile, the peace appeal itself got less than nowhere. The press and unofficial spokesmen of both sides gave it perfunctory respect. Then, after a decent five days, King George VI and President Lebrun gave it the works...
...water, and on the whole it's one of the wettest movie-going evenings since "The Hurricane." But unlike "The Hurricane" it was a bit wet from the critical point of view, too. A cast headed by Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power has a right to expect a decent script with which to work. But 20th Century Fox let them down with the script of "The Rains Came." For instance: Brent to Loy, "It's exciting seeing you again." Loy to Brent, "May I have a cigarette?" A startling example of relevant repartee...
...fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...
...marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes" at West Point), but never on Mrs. Whistler's Sabbath. Despite Mrs. Whistler's disapproval, Deborah went to balls. Young Jimmie picked up a love of courtly...
...they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may be another story. For silk's best defense against nylon & company is that decent silk stockings can be sold for 79? when the price of raw silk is below $2 (1935-38 average, $1.85). With silk at $3.50 most branded stockings were up from 79? last spring, to 85? in late summer...