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...bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they did not think such a meal sufficient for midday. Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that...
...Duck Soup (Paramount). Any country governed by Groucho Marx would likely become a shambles. Freedonia,* the scene of this picture, has Groucho for dictator, Brother Zeppo for his secretary. Freedonia's collapse is only delayed by Brothers Chico and Harpo as spies for a rival principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors...
...French Language of Dunster House menus is a great trial to students and waitresses alike. It is a common thing to ask the waitress, for example, for the puree, the veal, salad, and milk, and receive her reply, in all Innocence, "And do you want the soup...
...down, as it has assuredly broken down, it is no less the duty of the government to repair it. As long as truckloads of fresh milk and butter are being dumped into Wisconsin creeks while unemployed factory workers in the city are standing in line for a bowl of soup, the responsibility of the government to effect physical transactions between the two groups is, even under the constitution a very real...
...MASTER MURDERER - Carolyn Wells-Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered...