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Sirs: Your criticism of film producers on p. 25 of your issue of Dec. 21, for using the talented Tallulah Bankhead in their efforts to put over "three of the dustiest vehicles of the year," prompts me to write you a paragraph or two. Both Miss Bankhead and I are natives of Alabama. Long before Miss Bankhead went to London to achieve fame on the stage, I worked alongside her interesting and brilliant aunt, Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen, on the staff of the venerable Montgomery Advertiser. That was back in the days when the American stage had much of which...
...which every cinema concern except Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is now subject. After fetching talented, exciting, polished Tallulah Bankhead home from the London stage with the intention of making her a picture star, Paramount has introduced her to U. S. cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about...
...than attaches to the formality of receiving a degree. It is not strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...
...Cambridge existence, one may wonder whether such things really exist; are they not rather a dream, a bad dream, full of a succession of never-ceasing worries invented to dog our weary footsteps? Almost convinced, we put the thought of them far back in the darkest and dustiest corner of our minds...
...their coats and proceeded to load their baggage upon the "Niantic." At 5.45 p. m. the steamer started off, towing the two shells in her wake, and the crew started on a brisk steady walk toward their quarters. The distance is only six miles, but the road is the dustiest and hilliest in the country. At six o'clock they reached "Red Top," their quarters. The freshmen were just starting out for their afternoon row. They were looking in first-class condition...