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Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin is a blueblood, a clubman, a bon ivant, friend of kings and minor potentates. He can write and draw with both hands and both feet simultaneously (after first re moving his shoes) and has occasionally done so in legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public...
Starring Joan Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
...Wirkus, 49, Marine Corps non-com who became, by popular demand, King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonâve (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"-TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn...
...Bon Voyage. One of the most important U.S. shipping routes will be revived, after four years, when twelve intercoastal ship operators start coast-to-coast sailings next month. The War Shipping Administration allocated 55 Victory type ships to begin the service maintained by 144 ships...
...this bustle did not mean that travel for travel's sake was back again. There were no bon voyage parties, no champagne, no baskets of fruit. The big liners, still painted battleship grey, slid quietly through the Narrows. The passengers were "on official business," or were European nationals returning home...