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...competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...
...Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands...
Many an arm-chair philosopher considers modern man a slave of the machine. Not among them is Author Chase...
...Weist '30. Friench Simpson '32 will take the part of his twin brother. Menaechmus of Syracuse, with whom he is confused during most of the play. R. S. Shuman '31 will be the wife of the first Menaechmus, with M. W. Mansur '30 as her father. Messenio, the slave of Menaechmus of Syracuse, will be played by W. W. Wing...