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...picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound for the U. S. and freedom. A Vitaphone concert preceded the film...
...farms produce more than U. S. people eat, wear, or otherwise use or waste...
Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, waiters, tailors and candy-store clerks must beware their teeth. So said German scientist K. F. Hoffman last week. Indoor work tends to wear down bodily resistance. Poor ventilation helps teeth decay; dusts discolor teeth; sugar and flour ferment to form enamel-destroying acids...
...Manhattan newspapers, pretending to have sent reporters to interview Bishop Diaz in "Spanish and French," described him wearing his bishop's ring on his left hand, as though it were a wedding ring. Roman Catholic bishops wear the episcopal ring on the ring finger of the right hand, the hand with which they confer the episcopal blessing...
...Council for the revision of the rule as to the award of the insignia to members of the Second University eight, to read as follows: "Those who for two years have taken part as members of the Second University eight in a race with Yale shall be entitled to wear the 'H'; those who for one year have taken part in a race with Yale as members of the Second eight shall be entitled to wear the 'H' with crossed oars...