Word: billete
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...Widow from Monte Carlo (Warner) frames the noteworthy Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...
...England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore...
...best friend and neighbor, had the money to spare, but he was having a love affair with Herendene's wife, which complicated matters. Upshot was that Hoxsie sold to the Providence company and Perry made a discretionary retreat to Europe. Mary Herendene's husband discovered a revealing billet doux from her lover. Hoxsie gave up hopeless farming and got the fishing boat he had pined for, but he hardly liked the sight of the cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement...
...unchecked, met with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...
...Fine Arts Theatre this week saves the price of both a Baedeker and a billet from Thomas Cook & Son if you're interested in a trip through a part of new Russia. "Soviets on Parade" opens with a ten minute review of industrial and agricultural Russia. It is interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant...