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Boyds. "Starring William Boyd" & "Featuring William Boyd" appeared simultaneously last week on the posters of United Artists and Pathé. Both posters showed pictures of a manly, straight-featured William Boyd-the Pathé Boyd a film actor of long standing, the United Artists Boyd a new recruit from the legitimate stage (What Price Glory}. Though each William Boyd had baptismal right to his name, Pathé prepared to sue United Artists...
...bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said that the medieval historians had exaggerated, for it is impossible for the human system to hold 13 pints of any liquid at any given moment, and also impossible to drink more than...
Last week Candidates' Row got a recruit...
...Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals, sniffing for human interest effluvia, prefer parliamentary riots and such outbreaks as the Battle...
...League investigators are right in believing that: 1) An international traffic in women (with and without their consent) is steadily carried on through smoothly organized and richly financed channels; 2) The prevailing demand for French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief European port through which "white slaves" pass is Marseille, France; but Lisbon...