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...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...
...prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection and a house just off Belgrave Square. His son. the Marquis of Sheere, also falls under Melanie's spell. Both Earl and Regent want something "a little less binding" than marriage. All of this makes little difference to Melanie, for it turns...
...half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. Cartoonist David Low of the London Evening Standard pictured a "Russian Ballet-International Pas de Deux," with President Roosevelt prettily handing a bouquet to coyly pirouetting Litvinoff...
...third volume of the Oxford Edition of the Works of Chopin includes the Masurkas, Moreeaux do Concert. Concerios and the Rondean pour Deux Plane. They are all taken from the original Chopin manuscripts, with autographed changes shown in a clear manner. There is an introduction in English French and German which explains the need for such an edition and the difficulties in compiling it. The work in its entirety is probably too expensive and voluminous for most pianists, but should be included in a musical library of any pretensions...
Tried, convicted Aicadre is taken off. Meanwhile at the "cloob" there is much irrelevant activity. But two sympathetic visitors, Nicholas and Philomela Purssord, of whose doings Authoress Harris makes a little novel in itself, come to Deux Estaings. When Aicadre is released they help break down his inhuman, crippled bitterness. When that breaks down the truth breaks out at last?Aicadre is in fact desperately in love with life, and, after Laure has ordered her tyrannous mother out of the house, with her. Moreover he was not the murderer of their child...