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...atmosphere which one detects in "Zoo in Budapest," is not wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...
...Small cat & dog bankers would continue to float cat & dog securities-since they would have little capital and less reputation to lose...
...Petting in the Park," "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song," "Forgotten Men." Dance Director Busby Berkeley's most decorative notion was a "shadow waltz" with a chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding...
...Stocks. Morgan & Co. does not float common stocks, seldom preferred stocks, but when it arranges the financing of companies there are often common stocks to be sold. In such cases it may buy a block of common shares, which it gets at wholesale price, may make a handsome profit, for as in the case of Standard Brands (see p. 58) when the wholesale price is $32 a share, and the opening market price is over $40 a share, there is a paper profit of $8 a share to begin with. Of the block of shares purchased part may be resold...
...Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word for me before...