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...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...
Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light...
Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...
...Wasn't that well done?" was the comment of the Lady-In-Front as the last flicker of "Vanessa" vanished from view and a satisfied audience dragged out of the University. Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes are teamed together again and supported by a notable cast including Otto Krenger and Lewis Stone who do their usual fine work. Taken from Hugh Walpole's best seller, the story is extremely well handled but like many another fine book is a little cramped. So few scenes for such a long story involves much being taken for granted...