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...Hollywood producing companies print or develop their own films. They have such work done by the Consolidated laboratory, biggest company of its kind in the U. S. In bottle-like glass cases, side-by-side on long shelves resembling wine racks, the rolls of celluloid are kept like vintages. Some of those in the burned building were unreduplicable parts of pictures now in production-the whole negative of Jazz Heaven, two days work on Dance Hall, the complete negative of The Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary...
...would serve its purpose on other camp in other sports. Harvard's new crew coach-whoever he may be-may insist that his charges be joined in companionate marriage with their oars until the feel of the sweeps becomes an ingrained habit. Polo devotees may be forced to live, wine, and dine in the saddle, although some "softies" will no doubt feel that merely toting the mallet about will suffice to carry the horsemen to intercollegiate championships. Possibly, at some date not so far in the future, the steps of Sezer Hall at class time may be thronged with sweat...
...statesmen or tycoons of the kind which stepped on U. S. shores last week, the U. S. has none whatever. For he is a man who (one may presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson preaches of Sundays-that, in fact, its finest pavings...
...sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
What astute B'rer Briand really wanted was to get from his guests an endorsement of his scheme which should be unanimous, however vague. Therefore the food and wine were of first importance. No gourmet himself, M. Briand had the menu prepared by M. Aimé Leroy, a noted epicure who is also French Consul-Genera] in Geneva...