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Alois P. Swoboda, mass-advertising "culture rhythm" man, was enjoined in Brooklyn from selling oil stock to members of his cult by a letter describing one "Dahlgran," alleged oil well locater. Eighteen months ago, Dr. Swoboda took in $70,000 for the stock; no oil has yet appeared. Said the letter: "This man Dahlgran through his power is to serve Swoboda and Swobodians. Dahlgran has located for me what he considers a very extensive oil pool ... and is positive that the first well will be an enormous gusher. ... I personally do not care for wealth for my own sake...
...Three years, then, went by in the Rue Montmartre, to the monotonous rhythm of a never-flagging intensity. Elizabeth and Paul, made for childhood, continued to live on like the occupants of twin cradles. Gerard was in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Paul adored and tortured each other. . . . The same violent nights, the same clammy mornings, the same long afternoons when the children became estrays, moles in the light of day. It ended up with Elizabeth and Gerard's going out together. Paul went out in quest of his own pleasures...
...escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow of his past life constantly threatening him but with which he deals effectively?right up to the happy ending there is never a second when suspense has been neglected or overemphasized, or when the telling loses its quick, easy rhythm or becomes incredible. Best shot: Powell pushing his hands into a mill-roller to tear the skin off his police-recorded fingertips...
...benefit of such U. S. subscribers as have not only enjoyed the rhythm of, but also apprehended the substance of the above example of King's English, TIME appends factual comment as follows...
...best dancing teams resettle seen is that of Renarto and Rita They do a Walt which although acrobatic has all the gentle rhythm and smoothness so often lacking in that dance when modernized. They also have tango which Rita says is the same as that done is Rudolph Valen tine in the "Four Horseman" Having failed to see the former movie king in this picture , one can not make a deunite comparison, but the odds would seem to be on Renarto and Rita...