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...Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing in the sanitorium, is promoted to doctor's wife. The dialog is ridiculous but adequate for the plot. Individually the players deserve mention for their fortitude...
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...cafes of Pest, where even the waiters wear monocles, race-proud Magyars have hatched many a dark plot to put young Archduke Otto on the vacant throne in Buda across the Danube. But Archduke Otto is no Magyar; he is a Habsburg. To find a more appropriate ruler for his people was the self-appointed mission of a young Magyar fencing-master named Toth. Like the Finns, Esthonians, Turks and Tartars, the Magyars are part Asiatic, are believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito...
Sued. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; by Charlotte Poillon; for $5,000. Charge: failure to reward her for disclosing an extortion plot. Charlotte Poillon and her sister, Katherine, have graced many a courtroom since 1900, when they thrashed a masher in Central Park...
Several years ago an anonymous friend offered to finance the construction of a building on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets, on a recently acquired plot of ground adjoining the present Spee Club-house, designed to combine under one roof the offices now in Wadsworth House and the H.A.A. quarters in the basement of the Union. Business conditions have prevented the carrying out of this plan...