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...feature picture. Hero and heroine, in the film, come together at last in a canoe; in the "presentation," a baritone sings Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep with a lighthouse for backdrop. The film shows how a young society miss singes her wings; in the presentation, gauzy dancers flutter about an individual accoutred as Hell Fire. A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight. On the regular staff of each big cinema house is a Presentation Director whose duty...
...drop of blood was shed during this unusual Latin American rev- olution. The streets of Santiago, capital city, were quiet. The only flutter of excitement was caused by the publication of the following proclamation of the militants...
London. With Premier MacDonald absent in Scotland, the great metropolis was relatively quiet. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, "enemy of capitalism," provided a flutter of excitement by criticizing the agreement reached at the conclusion of the Premiers' Conference (TIME, June 30 et seq.). Said...
...good ship San Giorgio, pennants a flutter, hove to in the magnificently festooned harbor of Buenos-Aires. Guns boomed a welcoming salute. On the dock were the President of Argentina, his suite, hosts of Cabinet Ministers, statesmen and politicians, le Corps Diplomatique, numberless other dignitaries, all supported by a crowd estimated in hundreds of thousands. Italy's Crown Prince had come to pay an official visit to Argentina...
...mine"-all this on an Overland Sleeper, some years agone. This memory goes with him, all through the story, like Stevenson's shadow; but when he meets the cause of it again, it apparently does not prevent him from seeing her married off to somebody else, without the flutter of an eyelash...