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...glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into the fireplace. This is a very expensive tradition, but a most pleasant and necessary one. And then there is the custom of searching the cellar for Guy Fawkes' men at the opening of every parliament. The torch bearer as he steals about the dripping cellars of the building is not a simple man. He knows that Guy Fawkes and all his men have gone and that if Parliament is to be destroyed it will be by their own hand. But this is not as absurd...
Marion Gering's direction moves the story along fast without hurrying it, borrows the advantages of a close temporal unity without making it seem tricky by overemphasis. Clive Brook, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins give well-toned performances. Miriam Hopkins has two torch or porch songs, sings them with the right professional air. Good shot: Clive Brook, preoccupied by his troubles, saying good night to a saloon proprietor. Bad shot: Kay Francis deciding to take what she calls "the thoroughbred...
...club. "In recent years traditions have been dropped, scrap books and files have not been kept up." Continuing, he writes that it is the duty of the incoming officers to bear the responsibility, and to get after the schools and fellow college mates, for the club should "set the torch and inspire others to learn the art and pleasure of creative work in socializing music...
...moved them during modern years. . . . Whether the situation can be reme died by legislation remains to be determined. The hopes and prayers of Texas are that it can. . . . These are abnormal, parlous times. . . . The eyes of the nation are upon us, watching and hoping for us to raise a torch that will light the way for the Southland out of the darkness that now engulfs...
Last week the South waited patiently for the "big fat boy" to throw some of his surplus bulk into the surplus cotton problem, to take up the "torch" for other States to follow...