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...play deals chiefly with the adventures of a gay young Count who, tired of married life in his castle, seeks Paris and returns home, after a short fling at batchelor life, only to find himself in serious straights both domestically and politically...
Their program. When this bill is introduced it will " have hard sled- fling " in committee, as Messrs. Borah and Woodruff admit. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially, there will be difficulty, for the Committee includes Brandegee of Connecticut (Chairman), Cummins of Iowa, Colt of Rhode Island, Sterling of South Dakota, Shortridge of California, Walsh of Montana. Almost its only supporters will be Mr. Borah himself and Senator Norris of Nebraska. But the proponents of the bill hope to get it out on the floor of Congress and fight for it there...
Moral: Journalist, before thou seekest to cast out the mud from thy brother's hand, fling down the filth from thine...
...three act play "Le Depute de Bombignac" will be presented at the Tuesday matinee and on Friday evening. It is the portrayal of a gay Count who, tired of married life in his casle, seeks Paris, and return home, after a short fling, only to find himself in serious straits, domestically and politically...
...enjoyment of the recent tale of murder and psychoanalysis, from the pen of Mr. Ben Hecht, is neither augmented nor impaired by the eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia. It is the mental gymnastics of Sherlock Holmes or the chemical fumblings of Craig Kennedy that delight, rather than their eventual (and predictable) triumphs...