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...Additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker" makes the story of "The Moon's Our Home" what it is--a delightful comedy brim full of witty Parkerisms. Faith Baldwin may have written the original story about two celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes...
...make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search that took him to a volcano brim in Hawaii, Mt. Cook in New Zealand, Panama, Peru, covered 50,000 miles. He made an airplane flight within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole. When all the data was in his hands, he found overwhelming evidence for variation by latitude, ranging up to 20%, concluded that most of the rays...
...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...
...descended into a pool never to come up again, Mr. Rose exhibited his silvered and spangled idea of what a circus might look like in a child's dream. Both the old and the new Hippodrome spectacles were pervaded with the smell of elephants, were filled to the brim with good clean entertainment, were calculated to appeal to the rich & poor with a $3 top and a 40? bottom, were bound to please both young...
...serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely saw a woman visitor, never a female employe. Father lunched at Delmonico's, stopped for half...