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Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...
...This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon breaking forth into pert, lovable antics of the ingenue type, known to all stock companies. The audience laughed when it should have commiserated...
...walks into a restaurant and orders a vegetable dinner was pointed out accusingly by the National Shoe Retailers' Association in Manhattan last week, called the real culprit in high shoe price the association declared is coming. The less beef eaten, the less cattle killed, the higher the price of leather, the shoe men explained deftly. A 15% to 20% price increase was predicted because of the growth of vegetarianism...
...Pork is a good food. One of the best. Religion may forbid it, but that idea will die with the older generation. While pork has been avoided with horror for generations as 'unclean,' it is now being eaten by our younger generation...
...Correspondent Frank R. Kent.-ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)-ED. †Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)-ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point...