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...since the darkest days of the depression have Wall Street and Park Avenue been so agitated as by yesterday's announcement that the New York Stock Exchange has suspended the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. By luncheon time the dismal word had penetrated even such frivolous retreats as the Colony Restaurant and '21.' For once, Mrs. Harrison Williams' clothes, Carrie Munn's crazy hats and Bob Topping's latest escapade ceased to be favorite topics of conversation. . . . Not in our time, in our fathers' time nor in our grandfathers' time has there...
...When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...
...diseased and defective brains poison young healthy brains, by preaching of their past, which is as dark as the darkest part of Africa (Spain...
...times Diamond Corp. buys more than it sells, in good times it sells more than it buys, annual turnover varying from as low as $15,000,000 to as high as $90,000,000. Commercially, even great De Beers is subordinate to its potent subsidiary. During the darkest Depression days De Beers ceased selling diamonds entirely so that Diamond Corp. might have more resources to throw to the support of uncut diamond prices. Even then Diamond Corp. could not afford to buy all the diamonds offered by the alluvial producers, and the industry resorted to a strict quota system...
Actually, this grand effect derives from the dynamic possibilities of the material, which the producers of the film had the good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen...