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...inherits the role of the gold-digger who sets her cap for Hugh Herbert, an idle multi-millionaire with a penchant for writing monograms and collecting antique snuff boxes. Alice Brady, as the close-fisted millionaire mother of Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh, does her acting in the exaggerated mode of the whole production. Judged by the standards of a musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" is excellent. There is humor, a soupcon of tragedy, good acting, and clever trick photography...
...months had taught him much. Soon he would doff the disguise and go back to Russia. Possible candidates for whippings and roastings drifted through his mind. As for his people, he would change their mode of dress, force them to shave their beards, compel them to smoke. A navy second to none and Russia modernized. . . . All in good time...
...desire to become, nor could we become, a nation of mass production and consequent cheap labor. That would be a step, or rather many steps backward!" M. Flandin feels that the genius of the French is as the World's elite workers, creators of the mode...
...greatly appreciate your notice of the invention of our urinalysis machine. TIME has concisely stated its mode of operation and purpose. We sincerely hope that it will serve to warn those in the first stages of kidney trouble or diabetes that they should seek medical aid before irreparable damage has been done...
...chair seems crude. In principle they have no death penalty, but it is revived whenever Estonia is under martial law, as she has been since last March when a Fascist-Nazi Putsch was crushed. Last week pensive President Päts got to thinking that perhaps Estonia's mode of execution can be improved...