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...Home Abroad (words & music by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz; Shuberts, producers). Informally threaded around a couple who become so bored with the ubiquitousness of such U. S. personages as John D. Rockefeller and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that they flee on a world tour, this "musical holiday" has no less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid...
...factory, feels himself going to pieces when he finds Leda again. Learning that she loves him, he finds happiness for the first time in his introspective life. During their Manhattan idyl, Hendrick's wife sets detectives after them as Leda is recovering from an abortion. They flee to Europe, are appalled to discover that Hendrick's 10-year-old daughter, Margot, is traveling on the same boat, superintended by a mean friend of his wife...
Sophie was received at court, where she was as welcome as a leper. The revolution of 1830 placed Louis Philippe on the throne. Prince de Condé, still surrounded by Sophie's brawny cousins and lovers, tried to flee the country, was discovered by Sophie and subsequently strangled in his bed. An investigation, establishing Sophie's guilt, was suppressed by the king. Sophie had her wealth, her entrée into society, but she was hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling...
Residents of Addis Ababa were informed that the first air raid (real or for practice) will be announced by three cannon shots. At this the entire populace, some 100,000 black and white souls, are to flee into the environs. When they hear six cannon shots they are to return home. Finding that many foreign correspondents new to Addis Ababa were queasy about the lepers lounging in the streets, His Majesty ordered lepers to "get out and stay...
Throughout the novel there is a powerful surge of adventure. From the opening, when the Irish Sandy Brissaut and his English wife, Getra, flee from the police by sea, to the concluding chapters concerning Andrew's and his companions' return from the bleak Russian steppes, a swift current of happenings bears the characters on swiftly, and at times, inexorably...