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...base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe and fill it to the brim-" whereupon they all start smoking cigarets. Marching By, in spite of its unconsciously jovial libretto, should get credit for some pleasant melodies by Jean Gilbert...
Philosopher Paul Elmer More (Shelburne Essays), famed "humanist," departed for the University of Glasgow to receive an honorary LL. D. In his cabin baggage were two large crates, full to the brim with modern detective fiction...
...edit his Washington Herald. (He said "No" when she wanted to buy it.) Last week Editrix Patterson, who cannot settle down in Washington but gads about the country for the fun of reporting, hinted that she had espied Professor Albert Ein stein on the Mojave Desert's brim in the nude...
...rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison Ave., New York. And although the film shows many a fierce jungle beast, the troupe spent six weeks at $2,000 a day trying to persuade some crocodiles to snap...
...Butt letters brim with fascinating Washington chitchat, never mean, never bitter, which brings Taft more to life than any formal biography. Examples: 1) the cow Mrs. Taft insisted on buying for the White House household; 2) the $5,000 the Tafts had saved on entering the White House and the $80,000 they had after two years; 3) "Little Charlie [the President's son] is a great bookworm and spends most of his time curled up on a sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father...