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Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles was trying-despite continued dou-ble-crossing-to arbitrate bloody differences between Cuba's political ins and outs, the President sent President Gerardo Machado a pleasant but barb-pointed cable: "Restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." ¶ The President was happy to receive a report that his Civilian Conservation Corps had been completely enrolled (274,-375 ), was now working in the woods, had already sent...
...scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage Bed) has its memorable moments. What the quaint older generation would have called a love affair occurs to Sena and Percival. To them it is merely a biological barb which can be plucked out in one assignation, leaving them to work in peace and with increased artistic comprehension of each other. But Husband Harlow, acting like an old fogy, objects to even one evening of adultery on his wife's part. Naturally, she had told him her plans...
...death of Colonel Miller (father of the Miller brothers) the family was, as Zack Miller remarked, "flat as the prairie." Once it had been a great cattle family. In 1880, old Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed...
...Barb Three: Herr Müller implied that M. Briand is a hyprocrite, just talks peace, disarmament...