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...York was amused to hear last week that Heywood Broun, big, shambling syndicated colyumist for the New York Telegram, would run as the Socialist candidate for the House of Representatives in the "silk stocking" district of Manhattan now represented by Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt...
James Edward etc. Lord Salisbury sat up abruptly, raised his gleaming silk hat, bowed amiably to his colleagues...
...Lords, though only six of them (besides the five royal commissioners) took the trouble to be present, were waiting in State. Then came the reading of the bills. Two periwigged clerks stood before the silk-robed Lord Chancellor, read out the name of each bill passed at this session of Parliament. After each item (regulation of motor traffic, working hours for barbers, etc. etc.) the first clerk bowed solemnly, the second boomed out "Le Roy le veult...
Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...
Good Intentions (Fox). This preposterous fable about gunmen in silk hats is good entertainment, although the characters, including Edmund Lowe as the gunmau chief, are stencils. The story is the one about the society Robin Hood who falls in love with a nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room...