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...Front Page (Howard Hughes?United Artists). Adolphe Menjou, a peaked and spindling personage suited to tailcoats and equipped with a devilish little mustache, has long been identified in the cinema with the roles of enervated clubmen, sleek playboys, roues too tired to be dashing. Required to impersonate, in The Front Page, a city editor addicted to coarse epithets and unscrupulous behavior, he does so with surprising success, without even removing his boutonniere. In order to retain the services of a reporter who wants to leave town for a more respectable position, he arranges for police to arrest the reporter...
...Sleek, porcine, bejeweled and bespatted, "Scarface Al" last week came to grips with the law once more in his amazing extra-legal career. He admitted that he weighed 235 Ib. but protested: "I'll sweat it off this summer." As he entered Chicago's Federal Court, onlookers were surprised at the absence of a bodyguard. -'Much of this talk about my guards is bunk. Most of them are my guests," he said...
Henry Fountain Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...
...Kroner. Prize presentations and the prizemen's acceptance speeches were at separate ceremonies. Each Nobel check for 172,946 kronor ($46,350) was encased in a sleek portfolio. Redder and redder flushed red-haired Author Lewis as the three other prizemen received their portfolios. When his turn came to step up to King Gustaf and receive $46,350 from the Royal hand Mr. Lewis advanced jerkily, bowed abruptly, deeply...
Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl. Governor Emmerson of Illinois opened the poultry show, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board came to preach his gospel of fattening stock on the nation's surplus wheat, Mrs. John Hertz (Yellow Cab) showed a group of australorps, antipodean fowl, from her farm at Gary...