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...British still thought they had good reason to be suspicious. For U.S. interests were handled by the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council with State Department approval. The F.B.P.C. was born because U.S. bondholders had taken a sound licking on a previous "settlement" of Brazilian bonds in 1934, the "Arañha Settlement...
...Bloomfontein Observatory reports the Paraskevopoulos comet to be in the constellation of Ara. It is 17 hours, 14 minutes right ascension, declination 49 degree south. The Cordoba Observatory reports the object is moving rapidly south and east...
...second grade, his father was unwillingly escorting him each Saturday afternoon to the roundhouse and shops of the railroad where Petit Vag examined everything with the careful eye of a visiting official. The railroaders were alternately amazed, amused, and flattered by his youthful attentions. Then, after an expensive ara of toy electric trains, which were never really realistic enough, Petit Vag was shipped off to prep school, bribed into going chiefly by the fact that it entailed a long train ride...
...Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved the ultimate indignity of being laughed at by first-nighters in passages intended to be solemn...
Under such conditions, the best of acting is liable to be submerged. Yet Mr. Faversham succeeds in injecting a considerable amount of gracious humor into his role, and Ara Gerald, although her part was exceptionally maltreated by the playwrights, is both attractive and capable. Miss Atherton plays the conventional caricature of an English governess...