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...blatant plot of Five and Ten, conceived and executed as a magazine novel by Author Fannie Hurst, permits Marion Davies, hitherto an adroit though kittenish comedienne, to attempt an emotional role. Although Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...
...defi to the world, but an expose of what Premier Mussolini believes to be the wreck of Lo-carno-this was suppressed, not by the Fascist censor but by the gentlemen of the U. S. press...
Naturally the hard-headed brethren of Wall Street welcomed this superCapitalist defi to Labor, promptly showed their approval of and confidence in the new decrees by buying so many lire that the price rose half a cent...
Warren G. Harding: " The press represented me as having sent a ' golf defi' to Lieutenant Governor W. C. Nichol of British Columbia. I have issued him a friendly challenge for a match when I reach Vancouver, July...