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John Barrymore is a very different sort of buck. He raises one eyebrow, wears a white tie, jokes politely with a lady (Karen Morley) whom he finds naked in his bed, and carries the proud name of the Duke of Charmerace. Guerchard rather suspects, when the picture begins, that the Duke of Charmerace is Arsene Lupin. However, when he goes to a ball at the Charmerace establishment in Paris, he finds that Charmerace suspects him of the same thing. Moreover, his likeliest spy, after climbing into the Charmerace bed without her clothes, not only makes friends with Charmerace but falls...
...being broadcast. On the stage last week Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria Jeritza made each and every one shake hands with 'little Jonathan Rinehart...
...This indifference is the outgrowth of several things,--tradition, Eastern conservatism, and the ever increasing pressure of modern life. Freshmen come to Harvard full of pep, and ready for anything and everything, but within a few months the enthusiasm of these same Freshmen has been replaced by the arched eyebrow, and the indifferent look...
Across one eyebrow ran a scar. Booth's eyebrow was scarred as the result of a false thrust in a stage duel...
When a slangster cocks an eyebrow and rasps "Oh, yeah?" some people feel faintly bilious. But when a pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern...