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...advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners as the U. S. is ever likely...
Orchids to You (Fox) concerns a beauteous blonde who is in love with a handsome brunet who is in love with his wife who is in love with another man. The blonde (Jean Muir) is a successful Manhattan florist. The brunet (John Boles) is a successful Manhattan attorney. The wife (Ruthelma Stevens) is a throaty creature who spends most of her spare moments in her lover's arms while pretending she is attending a dying mother...
...taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled...
...opportunity to sit in on one of Franklin Roosevelt's press conferences. Struck with admiration he flew home and startled Panama by instituting press conferences of his own. Year ago he returned Franklin Roosevelt's hospitality, had an elevator installed in the Presidencia so that he and beauteous, curvesome Senora Arias could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until last week all Dr. Arias had got from his fellow ruler was 1) an offer of 59? dollars for Canal rent; 2) a Roosevelt order permitting the sale of liquor...
...father is president of Kentucky's Berea College and his younger brother vice president of Yale-in-China, but Bob Hutchins might never have turned to Education if it had not been for beauteous Maude McVeigh. He was 22, penniless and wanted to be a lawyer, but a prep-school teaching job looked like the only way he could earn enough to support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have...