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Playing with Souls. You will be moderately amused by this fable of the neglected son. After 20 years of loneliness, he suddenly determines to plunge himself in the bubbling springs of champagne that make Montmartre such a fertile hill of pleasure. His father, far off in Wall Street, is warned and appears to rob him of the French cocotte who might have married him. Buster Collier plays this young man congenially. Rather less effective was Jacqueline Logan as the French girl surrounded by Parisian night life that obviously existed only in the excited brain of some Hollywood director...
...money market; so, of course, there could be no arrièrepensée behind Mr. Lament's rhapsodies on the Italian landscape. Moreover, financial rehabilitation and gold currency are terms that have not yet been coined in Rome. Clearly, Mr. Lamont was on a vacation. Yet the impression in Wall Street was to the effect that Mr. Lament was not in Italy simply to admire local sunsets and that he may return to Manhattan with something beside good golf scores to show for his "vacation...
...days later, a crowd of people assembled outside and inside the gaudy Sveti Krai Cathedral whose interior is decorated with numerous and immense rainbow-colored portraits painted on the walls and pillars. All had come to pay their last respects to the remains of General Gheorghieff. In a long, solemn queue, the funeral procession, headed by the Cabinet, trailed slowly, mournfully through the grimy Sofia streets and at length drew near to the Cathedral. There was a blinding flash, a terrific roar and the entire south wall and a large section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed...
...Arizona, an expedition sent by Edward L. Doheny, oil man, found pictures of dinosaurs, American elephants, prehistoric deer and men, scratched in the "desert varnish" (black iron scale) on a vertical, red sandstone canon wall...
...business of the country in general seems in a fairly prosperous and stabilized condition. The leading factor which is likely to improve or depress it is in all probability the 1925 staple crops. Accordingly, Wall Street today is watching and analyzing weather maps and agricultural reports as never before...