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...left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet and fluffy chiffon and more red hot syncopation a la her Ziegfield "Follies" days would have attracted the thunderous applause with which the "Publix" audience greets atrocious slapstick. Miss Murray must be admired, most of all, because she refused to descend to the level of her audience. For the theatregoer who storms the box office to see his or her cinematic god or goddess in person, however, the notions that the movie star should play the sedulous ape on the stage and chameleon-like run through their past repertory of screen...
After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...
...those frequent cases when Burn's famous works about the plans of mice and men holds true. Some will of course say that the Vagabond has been restricting himself solely to intellectual pursuits to ward off the wrath of those whose thunder bolts are so prone to descend upon the poor benighted during the dreary hours of November examinations. That, indeed, is not the case-and with a weekend directly upon us need anyone be important and enquire further...
...Mesa Centrala is riddled with these tremendous gorges. The change in climate as you descend is remarkable. The mine was up on the rim in a forest of pine trees; but down below where the ore was carried by an aerial tramway, the jungle was full of parrots and monkeys...