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...chapter on the care of animals is taken for the most part from the Pet Department of the "New Yorker." It deals chiefly with the more subtle sides of animal life, but for all of that quite instructive and thoroughly amusing. He solves such problems as horses with tendencies to take up their residence in the drawing room and adolescent polar bears...
Girls Demand Excitement (Fox). This is a juvenile Lysistrata played against a collegiate backdrop in dialog disinfected for young ears. The original framework of Aristophanes' comedy is kept to the extent that the girl students will not "pet" unless the male students stop depriving them of their communal rights. The big scene comes in the basketball game when the girls use flirtatious methods of managing a victory. Girls Demand Excitement is made bearable at times by the good looks of a youthful cast. Best part: Virginia Cherrill (heroine of City Lights) as the girl who eliminates the leading male woman...
Feeding my Pet - A worthy Horse* every morning about...
...herself to Peter, but he decided against it and stuck to his decision long enough to get away. When Caroline told Maurice she and Peter were in love, he made things more difficult by taking it very well and trusting them completely. Caroline went off to London in a pet and spent the night with a man she despised. When she got home to find her little daughter down with pneumonia, she thought it was a punishment. Then Peter discreetly went away. Caroline thought her heart was breaking, but perhaps would wake up some morning and find she was glad...
...female secretary almost fainted. Congressmen withdrew gingerly. "Very beautiful," commented Mrs. Owen, She picked up the reptile-a household pet of Dr. Kelly-and let it slide around her neck and shoulders. When the snake was put on the committee table it rustled among papers, allowed Mrs. Owen to pet it. Dr. Kelly explained that king snakes, indigenous to the proposed park, are harmless, destroy rattlesnakes-also indigenous to the area. Confessed Mrs. Owen: she had never handled a snake before...