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Typhoon (Paramount) illustrates in garish Technicolor the peril to a besotted beachcomber (Robert Preston) of stranding on a Polynesian isle with an uninhibited child of nature (Dorothy Lamour...
...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...
...campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that robs the citizens of their liberties can still take the joy out of life...
...within the State (in 138 counties, 626 communities & cities). Ever since red-gallused Gene Talmadge as Governor in 1933 forced a cut, Uncle George's rates have been among the lowest in the U. S. Politically, the company's two top figures are white-thatched, personable President Preston Stanley Arkwright and bulky, pervasive Fred B. Wilson, assistant to Mr. Arkwright. Neither able Mr. Arkwright nor Uncle George is entirely independent. Georgia Power is a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., whose president is GOProspect Wendell Willkie. As a subsidiary, Georgia Power is subject to the Public Utilities Holding Company...
...elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...