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...stage version of Clear All Wires, by Samuel and Bella Spewack, ended with an alliance between Buckley Joyce Thomas and a pretty female correspondent. The cinema makes this more effective by showing a newspaper headline-"Mrs. Buckley Joyce Thomas captured by China bandits''-which shows that Thomas is still up to his trick of faking stories. A more important change-making Buckley Joyce Thomas the hero of a farce instead of the butt of a satire-is less fortunate but three crack performances (Lee Tracy as Thomas, James Gleason as his secretary, Eugene Sigaloff as Prince Alexander) help...
...martyr of herself to no good end; she could have told Rachel her favorite granddaughter, many a sad, true thing about what was ahead of her. But Louisa always refrained. She said what she thought would help: when she really wanted to talk she talked to herself or to Bella, the maid, who wanted to get married but was so set on it she scared all the men away. By some talent worth any amount of cleverness, Authoress Whipple has made old Heroine Louisa the kind of human being that human beings instinctively, almost unanimously admire. " 'Mmmm,' said...
...Chucky Moskowitz and Bella Englestein hitchhiked to Fort Smith for a week-end recently. Bella was in need of new glasses so she and Chucky made a lark of this necessity. They had a fine trip...
During the War everybody has his troubles, great & small, except Mr. Winburg the tailor, who makes a fortune selling shoddy raincoats. It is his daughter Bella, in whose bath salts are all the perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...
...murderous and suicidal state desiring to let loose a new war while the world is still feeling the consequences of the World War." ("Should we unfortunately become certain that such a state exists," the Pope added, "we should repeat the prayer of the Scriptures, Dissipa gentes quae bella volunt."*) Regenerators. "[Pray] for all who suffer for the profession and defense of the faith as in Mexico, Russia and Siberia, preparing by their sufferings the regeneration of those countries." He wished prayers for Roman Catholic missionaries and special prayers for those missionaries in China, where some have been martyred. Depression...