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Reader Warner is right. A present incumbent is as redundant as an old antique or a cup of demi-tasse...
INTERFERENCE-The haughty upper classes passing poisoned demi-tasses (TIME...
...Demi-Bride (Norma Shearer). Criquette (Norma Shearer), convent-bred maid of Paris, glimpses one Phillippe (Lew Cody), making his ardent way to another woman's heart in the park nearby. This is the man for Criquette. Though he is her stepmother's lover, though he looks upon her as a creature of the nursery, she persists in wooing him. By inveigling, him into a compromising situation, she succeeds in forcing him to marry her. As she walks down the aisle of the church, the unhappy groom notices that his bride by compulsion is quite a beauty...
...Hall of the Americas, Secretary Mellon, Senator Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, in a demi-toilet of black chiffon and lace over a white chiffon slip faced with pagoda blue, received the guests, President and Mrs. Coolidge first. The entire Cabinet, the entire Supreme Court, a few Senators and Representatives, many diplomats, the royalty from Sweden, many friends, were in line. Mrs. Harvey Arthur Lee, the bride's mother, however, was not present. Mrs. Dawes was present, but the Vice President could not leave the Senate...
...course the Americans were slaughtering each other too. Sweetser had beaten dangerous Francis Ouimet, who had previously eliminated George Von Elm. But Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form...