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...days before the bridge inaugural, some members of the British House of Commons were talking with the Agent in London of the State of New South Wales, Mr. A. C. Willis. They told him they had learned of a plot in Sydney to pick up six-foot Premier Lang just as he was opening the bridge and throw him overboard into Sydney harbor, 172 ft. below...
Knowing his fellow Australians, Agent Willis could easily believe them capable of such a playful plot. He rushed from the House of Commons, dashed off a cable to Premier Lang, discovered next morning that London's urbane Press thought "someone has been pulling Mr. Willis' leg." In England Premiers are not tossed off bridges. That even Australians would plot such a thing is to Englishmen quite unthinkable...
Meanwhile Sydney seethed. Sydney is the Capital of New South Wales and its agent in London is, in Sydney's eyes, almost an ambassador. If Agent Willis had seen fit to warn Premier Lang, extraordinary precautions must be taken against the "plot...
Here a U. S. cinema plot might have called for a hasty showdown, in which Jef would either forgive his Marceline or, pardonably, shoot her. Director Jean Choux, who wrote the story, avoided such cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully...
Shopworn (Columbia) escapes the danger, in which its plot places it, of being too accurately titled. Reserve in the directing and natural, finished acting, commend it to above-the-average cinemaddicts. Pop Lane and his daughter Kitty (Barbara Stanwyck) live in a construction camp. As pop is dying from injuries received in a dynamite blast, he warns his daughter that life is '"tough," tells her always to "take it on the chin." Kitty spends the remainder of the picture having a good time doing so. She moves from construction camp to college campus, waits on table...