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Always Goodbye (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides Barbara Stanwyck, as an up-to-date young woman caught in the web of social difficulties, with a perplexing problem and an extensive wardrobe. The problem is whether to marry the man she loves (Herbert Marshall), or the guardian (Ian Hunter) of her son, produced before she married anyone at all. The wardrobe is the inevitable equipment, in the cinema, of all young women who work in dress shops...
...take things easier. Informal, he stomped around the house on his peg leg, wore his artificial limb only when he went out in society. But soon he was going stronger than ever. He made two trips to Greenland, where he revisited old friends, brought their stories up-to-date, dug up many a new tale. A special part of his pleasure, the reader suspects, was his wife's slightly sick astonishment at Eskimo food (year-old whale, blue-green eggs, etc.),at such hospitable Eskimo customs as wife-trading...
...change which brings Miss Littlefield to Chicago next season is accompanied, according to President Whitney, by a large financial saving to the Chicago company. Incidentally, neither Mr. Whitney nor Manager Paul Longone has ever seen Miss Littlefield or her ballet perform up to this date...
...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...
...first stories are told with almost straight humor. Example: Ineligible for the football banquet because he has no girl to take, a high-school second-string player gets a miraculous date with the prettiest girl in the State. But at the banquet he ignores her completely- he just wanted a big feed...