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...massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus...
Second tenors: Courtlandt Cann '36, Robert R. Covell '35, Walter C. Humstone '35, William W. Johnson '36, John S. Lang '35, Edward B. Lee '34, Oliver E. Rodgers '36, Seldon T. Rodgers...
Traveling on to lecture at Cuddle College for girls, Pearl falls in love with a chambermaid, Zasu Pitts. The lovemaking of the strange pair touches a charming note which Director Walter Lang quickly suppresses. A chorus of girl students, Ted Healy and stooges prance energetically through the proceedings. Finally the leal Baron and then Pearl's Aunt Sophie arrive and thoroughly expose the impostors. Miss Pitts, inconsolable, finds her hero is a pants-presser but follows Pearl anyway - and he is offered a fabulous radio contract. The picture ends with Manager Durante, in a state of wild-eyed, concentrated...
...Peggy Wood flounders. Tenor George Meader, sprightlier than ever, seems to have forgotten that he was once good enough to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. The Pursuit of Happiness (by Alan Child & Isabelle Loudon; Laurence Rivers, producer). The real names of Alan Child and Isabelle Loudon are Lawrence Lang-ner, of the Theatre Guild, and his wife Armina. The real name of Laurence Rivers is Rowland Stebbins, producer of The Green Pastures. The real purpose of The Pursuit of Happiness is to capitalize the old Colonial custom called bundling. As practiced by pretty Prudence Kirkland (Peggy Conklin) at Westville...
While Messina waved a revolver. Senator Long charged Photographer Williams, managed to break the flashlight bulb on his camera. Fists doubled, he turned on the Times-Picayune's Reporter Samuel Lang. Quick-witted, the reporter called out: "Get a picture of Messina with his gun out!" Hastily the bodyguard pocketed his gun, fled from sight. Then Reporter Lang challenged : "Come on and hit me if you want to, Senator, your gunman's gone now." Senator Long stopped. looked around, dropped his hands. "I don't want to hit you," he snarled and ran aboard the Crescent Limited...