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...finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy Englishmen who inspect the excitement from the roof of the hero's studio. Notable in a cast of brilliant French character actors is Rene Lefebvre...
...know that many Englishmen sneer at the North American idea of publicity and describe their methods of boosting as vulgar. . . . I am sorry to say that we are sadly behind the times in the field of advertising...
...privileges. The Coopers stayed abroad seven years, got back to the U. S. to find times had moved. Cooper became didactic, not to say cantankerous. "His view of the world . . . had ceased to be genial. He disliked many things, and disliked them more each year-reviewers, Yankees, newspapers, kings. Englishmen, mobs, national timidity and national complacency. And there steadily grew upon him a taste for laying down the law." Editors made libelous fun of him; he sued the editors, usually won. But his popularity slipped away fast...
...presenting the material about the two famous Englishmen, Dr. Davison wasted no time with lengthy and wordy dissertations on the technical intricacies of the music, and avoided any internal analysis of the origin and influences on Gilbert's compositions, which although of interest to the academician, are of minor concern to the average person interested in music...
...undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini, the Englishmen were able to take to Paris an agreement so satisfactory that within four hours French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand pronounced it acceptable to France...