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Last week President Roosevelt was confronted with a second Bonus March on the capital. His method of handling it was in marked contrast to that of his predecessor. Opposing prepayment of the Bonus no less firmly than Mr. Hoover, he used the regular Army to befriend the bonuseers upon arrival instead of to bedevil them upon departure...
Kaoru desires Agemaki, but she wants no man. When he tries to consummate his love, she substitutes her sister in the bed. Shocked. Kaoru leaves Kozeri untouched, begins to see that he has been unfaithful to Prince Hachi's trust. He determines to befriend the girls by marrying Kozeri off to his noble friend Niou. The gallant Niou succeeds in winning her, takes her off to court. But soon, for court reasons, he has to reduce her to concubinage. With her tragic disappointment the book ends. Though Niou "vowed to cherish her in this life and all lives to come...
...that he has a diploma from a correspondence school of acting. His bemused enthusiasm makes his predicament sad as well as funny. Once admitted to a studio lot, he remains for two days, sleeping in property beds, eating property pork & beans. A generous extra girl (Joan Blondell) tries to befriend him but in so doing adds the last straw to Merton's misery. She gets him a job with a director who makes a burlesque "western" with Merton as the hero. He plays his role in earnest. At the preview of the picture he is so broken...
Playwright Alan Alexander Milne's latest work, based on a commendable satirical structure, describes a pair of bright young things who, apparently having nothing better to do, attempt to befriend some dear old things downstairs. In the course of their philanthropy they have the daughter of the family packed off to Canada. She departs brokenhearted. They also arrange an operation for the invalid mother. She dies. The father (venerable 0. P. Heggie), mortally stricken by the heartless kindness of his neighbors, is left to face his future empty-handed and alone...
...success of the team has been demonstrated; we have a new and worthy child. Are we, then, to turn an old Eli trick and "leave a bastard son on the stops of Durfy"? Or are we to befriend and act as a father to this little fellow who is, after all, such a likeable and deserving chap...