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...Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William Powell as Philo Vance, and Harry Green singing something called "I'm Isidore, the Toreador." Best sketch: Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn Brent in The Origin of the Apache...
...more legitimate news. The events which by all sane standards may be said to hold any vital importance for America or the world apparently have to be spiced with innumerable inconsequential and often silly stories. A public once satisfied by "news" from Winstead, Conn., about five-legged calves, trained brook trout, talking chickens, and green horses, must now have the gossip and idiocies of a whole world to satisfy its craving for bizarre trifles...
...long, wavering line-41 horses, with their boys in colored silks-broke suddenly and swept forward toward the first jump. They were over safely, hard to see against a patch of mist that touched the corner of the course. At Valentine's Brook, Sir Lindsay, John Hay Whitney's horse, was over first, with Shaun Goilin (pronounced Shahn Goy-lin), right after him. At the open ditch, Gate Book went down and Gregalach, one of the favorites since Easter Hero was scratched, screwed sideways in the air, landed clear but had to be pulled up. He was down...
...Prime Minister he would call an Imperial conference on the question, submit its decision, if any, to a national referendum (a most unprecedented course in Britain, where referendums are considered contrary to the spirit of parliamentary institutions). Within an hour after Baldwin's about-face, Baron Beaver-brook's Evening Standard splashed out in what was said to be the largest headline type ever used in London: MR. BALDWIN DECLARES FOR THE EMPIRE. Below, Beaverbrook declared for Baldwin...
...want something to do between dinner and bed. There is a master criminal named Malatroff who classifies his subordinates by number, and is interested in procuring the Maharajah's ruby or a string of pearls from a Youngstown, Ohio, millionaire living at Nice. Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook are in it. Best shot: what Miss Brent found on her way to the safe...