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Deepest of Tsahai's home contentments was the escape from the rigid isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English, French or German phrases she understood, but whose meanings she could only ponder. Because her skin was brown and because she was royalty, there had never been any expansion in the invisible walls which closed around her in the pink-skinned world...
Upholstered in Western clothes, Tsahai and her mother went out sometimes to tea, chatted politely, accepted as polite the thin-lipped smiles of Bath. Tsahai learned to accept her isolation with the dignity her father so frequently recommended. She enrolled in a London hospital for a nurse's training course, earned a diploma and was ready, when her father regained his kingdom, to return with...
Trouble is, the regular market has often been too slow and too thin to handle large blocks of stock. But five months ago the exchange got a bright idea, set up "special offerings" (i.e., carefully prepared sales) to dispose of large blocks. So far most of these specials have gone over big. Lured by extra-fat commissions, exchange members sold 28,700 shares of General Electric in four minutes; last week they sold 10,000 National Distillers and 5,000 Hercules Powder in less than one minute each...
Less anxious, Smith waits until September 16, when Harvard will be entering exam agonies, to take the first step. Connecticut and Vassar all follow within a few weeks. And as they open, Wig grows thin, giggles die down, and the girls hope earnestly that summer friendships are lasting friendships...
Except for the last scene, where he gets a chance to pull a bit of thin man flippancy, Powell is blithely miscast. The picture itself might well have been directed by three different men with three different interpretations of its content, and written by at least as many more confused individuals. It takes what could have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood...