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...Irene Delroy as a pair of golddiggers who are discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...
...because she was a woman" or "because she might have influence?" 3) If she knew what the penalty was? 4) If she would like to explain her silence to the judge? Suddenly she spoke: "I'm Mrs. John A. McPherson and I didn't know it was wrong to park double and I haven't been driving a car long enough to know the rules, and I don't think that just because I'm a woman I can get away with anything and I don't think I have any influence...
Like many another unusual man, David Herbert Lawrence, even while he was still alive, was famed for the wrong reason. Many a U. S. reader condemns him publicly, reads him privately, as a lewd fellow. Actually a plain dealer, his outspokenness on sex got this passionate preacher a bad name. This posthumous novel, his first to appear since the privately-printed Lady Chatterley's Lover, is sufficiently outspoken, but contains no Anglo-Saxonisms that would horrify a censor...
...make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about...
...recent book written by the chief correspondent of a New York newspaper, Murphy said. "I've only read half the book, and what I've read so far tells me that even though the facts as facts are perfectly true, I feel the author is reaching the wrong conclusions. This I cannot definitely say as yet, but while it is almost impossible to overstate the degree of suffering, even starvation, to be found among many parts of the population; and while no condemnation could be too severe for the selfish villainy of the feudal war lords, we must not lose...