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Already censors have dealt sternly with Mickey Mouse. He and his associates do not drink, smoke or caper suggestively. Once a Mickey Mouse cartoon was barred in Ohio because the cow read Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. German censors ruled out another picture because "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only...
Meanwhile, sandwiched in between the serious affairs that transpire above, the wildest farce is enacted on "The Floor Below." There a baroque, gold-turbaned widow (Lilian Braithwaite) with an Elinor Glynt in her eye, is trying to keep her daughter from getting married pending her own nuptials. The substance of this vaudeville skit is slim but Playwright Novello patiently works over it until, like the breakfast bacon & eggs, both tales come out about even. A good deal of the action in the Kennard flat upstairs is valid and affecting, in spite of its antiquated situation. And some of the comedy...
...Married. Elinor Latane, daughter of Sociologist John Holladay Latane who is Professor of History and onetime faculty dean at Johns Hopkins University; and William Truesdale Bissell, son of Richard Mervin Bissell who is president of Hartford Insurance Co.; in Paris...
...earned his living ever since. Nevertheless, he went through public school, then taught, became principal of schools in several Wisconsin towns, won a teacher's life certificate. Encouraged, he entered the University of Wisconsin, graduated LL.B. in 1884, took up the practice of law. In 1889 he married Elinor C. McClements of Chicago, who before her death in 1917 gave him one daughter, Genevieve Arlisle (wife of Capt. Emmet C. Gudger, U. S. N.). When Walsh and wife migrated West, he sought clients among the freeland settlers, first in Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena...
...Mile Lena Bernstein, 24, Russian emigree, took off from La Bourget airport on Thursday morning, descended Friday evening with a new ladies' endurance record of 35 hr. 46 min. 55 sec. sustained flight, surpassing by nearly ten hours the previous record (26 hr. 21 min. 32 sec. by Elinor Smith), falling 2 hr. 14 min. short of the men's record (last October; Vern Speich at Long Beach, Calif...