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...melodrama. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is often exciting, but it is more often tiresome. Last week's audiences applauded Claude Rains's bombastic interpretation of the hapless monster, almost hissed the polished villainies of Stuart Casey, but most likely it was pretty Jean Arthur who gave them all their pleasure...
...Southern lady of the old school, helpless product of exaggerated chivalry and Victorian prudishness, may never in real life have been such a pathetic monster as Authoress Glasgow's heroine, but she was at least recognizably similar. This sad story of how a fading Virginia belle tried to taper off into normal old age may affront the shades of Southern colonels but should arouse only wondering pity from a differently complicated generation...
...Ooooh! The Ogopogo!" cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...
Days before the Conference met last week, Ottawa swarmed with lobbyists and dickerers from all parts of the Empire and the world. Some 5,000 farmers from Ontario and Quebec were marching upon Ottawa. They proposed to meet in monster caucus, formulate demands for measures to enhance crop prices, present these demands to the Conference...
...Ninth Symphony) which Arturo Toscanini crossed the ocean specially to conduct in Carnegie Hall last May (TIME, May 9). Last week was publicized a series of bigger biggest, greater greatest benefit performances. With the co-operation of National Broadcasting Co., Dr. Walter Damrosch will put on five monster concerts in Madison Square Garden-Nov. 26, Dec. 10, Jan. 2, 11 and 25. Proceeds will go to the Musicians' Emergency Aid. Some features...