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Impossible characters, an unbelievable plot, and complete disregard of the life-work of Margaret Sanger rob the picture of any value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...
...Ethel Rowley), has a daughter, smokes pipes, loves golf, plays bridge by ear. Other books: Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves* Summer Lightning, Big Money. With Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern. George Grossmith and Ian Hay he has done more than two dozen stage comedies among .them A Damsel in Distress, Baa, Baa Black Sheep, Kissing Time...
...Under a letterhead depicting a scantily clad damsel, apparently the Goddess of Liberty, manacled by one hand to Gangland and by the other to Prohibition, "The Compromisers," recently born in Texas, sought to substitute for the 18th Amendment an individual permit system with government dispensaries...
...departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests who were giving themselves away in front of a concealed microphone (TIME, Mar. 3). Other Wodehouse items: A Damsel in Distress, Fish Preferred, The Inimitable Jeeves, Leave it to Psmith, Three Men and a Maid, Mr. Mulliner Speaking...
Other excerpts: "I must insist that I prefer to take profits and buy on recessions. ... P. S. Tell the dark-haired damsel to hold on to my portfolio. ... I š am sorry . . . that you are not a prophet of the first grade...