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...Anglo-U. S. suspicion and discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
Concerning lions, Mr. Johnson said: "We came upon what was literally a virgin valley swarming with lions. They had never heard a shot fired, and treated us with the utmost indifference. Food for them was so plentiful that they even disdained the dead zebras we put out as bait, merely walking up and sniffing at the food we had provided. . . . Day after day, for weeks at a time we filmed them, getting them in groups and families of ten or fourteen at a time. Altogether we photographed 147 lions...
...these people fall in love with the utmost bitterness. Venetia is lost between Peter Serle and Charles Savile. Raphael grows excited about an actress but fails to commit suicide although Author Arlen has thoughtfully put a yacht at his service with this purpose in mind. In the main their actions are unimportant, their manners make the story. Other figures glitter from unexpected portions of the narrative. Mr. Arlen has not entirely relinquished his trick of reinserting personages from previous books. The immaculate George Tarlyon is seen for an instant, playing bridge...
Neithor Mr. Hale nor any other writer can change the fact that Beethoven used to the utmost his great dramatic, poetic and musical genius in the compositior, of the "Missa Solemnis" in order to bring out the great spiritual significance and beauty of the Catholic Mass...
...take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost whimsical dispatch. There are some grand Irish moonlight and love talk in the last chapter too. Author Connell is a literary first cousin of both Funnyman Robert Benchley and Romancer Donn Byrne...