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Latest in the never-ending stream of De Mille productions, "Union Pacific"-- now at the Met--is like all his others in the grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians...
...Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every French dictionary to which I have had access, including the Dictionnaire Analogique de la Langue Française, and the Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Française...
...uncertain when this simplification and corruption occurred, but it must have been almost 200 years ago. The Rev. Ed. S. Taylor's famous history of playing cards, published in 1865, quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...
Signer Mussolini's smooth answer was that his legionnaires, who had shed blood in the glorious Spanish campaigns, surely could not be expected to depart before they had marched down Madrid's Gran Via and Calle de Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini...
...Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till...