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Returning to a cabin by the Shannon, she lost herself in reading for two years and began conributing to various London journals. A spill while fox hunting gave her a limp for life and, when she finally drifted to Hollywood, narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore...
...When, if ever, the government is able to restrict the scope of its activity it will be necessary and advisable to drop many of these employees. A percentage of them, however, are admirably fitted for a public career and should be kept on. The government should make a practice of recruiting this type in ordinary times. But how can this be accomplished...
...There are three methods by which people of other nations can help to change the German situation. The first is the boycott, but to be effective, such a program must be international in scope, and I feel that it is now more of an emotional reaction than a scientific means to an end. The second method is constant declaration of public opinion against Nazi atrocities. This pressure upon the Hitler government is very effective, and I urge all liberals and humanists to employ every means possible to let the German Consuls throughout the country know that the American people...
...Pretty, sentimental, and equipped with an expressive set of gestures, her voice remains the weakest part of her repertoire of talents. Consequently she suffers from the inertia of motion picture directors who go the path of least resistance, rely largely on dialogue and consistently fail to develop the vast scope of the camera. The result is a decline in pictorial beauty, dramatic sweep, and imaginative appeal. "Carolina" is more of a step towards pictorial technique than most of the shows today but the undeveloped possibilities of changing scene, mass action, and human emotion undisturbed by nasal utterances are still great...
...planning to campaign for election as a U. S. Representative from Connecticut, said James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney in Manhattan, "are a figment of fiction, for I really have no political aspiration. The only cause I'm taking up is woman suffrage. I mean woman suffrage in a broader scope than is allowed by law. I mean whether they should be allowed to sip cocktails at the bar in the Marguery, at Pierre's, at the Park Lane and the Waldorf-Astoria...