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...very bright side too. It has some of Wilde's most glittering sayings ("Experience . . . is simply the name men give to their mistakes"; "I can resist everything except temptation"). It has some of the best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever wrote. It brings to high life a touch of style and more than touch of snob appeal. All this pleasantly gilds its tale of a Woman with a Past who Lady Windermere, not knowing it was her own mother, thought was carrying on with her husband; .and who smirched her reputation a second time...
...World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
Urging ex-servicemen to "resist the defeatist trend now gaining momentum in America," Edward J. McHale, National Field Secretary of the American Veterans Committee, told the Harvard AVC chapter at its first fall meeting last night in the New Lecture Hall that old-line veterans' groups demonstrated at their recent conventions how incapable they are of meeting today's problems...
Johnson, typecast as a man no woman can conceivably resist for long, isn't resisted for long by either Miss Williams or Miss Ball. He ends up married to Miss Williams, but not without a brief intermediate marriage of convenience, cooked up by Wynn, to the red-head. In one of the neatest speeches of the year, Miss Ball yells her red head off about being the goat of it all, and Wynn comes to the rescue, thus balancing off the foursome. The economic motive is present, too, in the form of a two million dollar libel suit which starts...
...women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...