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...practical reasons Leginska wears a black velvet costume something like a Prince Albert. Frail shoulder straps would never survive the passion she puts into her music. Only Debussy and the like could be conducted with safety by a lady in conventional evening dress...
...been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns...
...Ogden Livingston Mills was, as everyone expected, appointed by President Hoover to succeed him as head of the Treasury. Mr. Mills's nomination was merely White House recognition of the fact that for the past year or so he has been practically running the Treasury over Mr. Mellon's frail shoulder. Between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Mills, 29 years his junior, there was almost a father-and-son relationship which culminated in last week's inheritance of office. Mr. Mills affectionately called his superior "the Old Man." Last year while Mr. Mellon was hopping about Europe, lining up foreign approval...
...absorbing triangle, and indeed an appealing one when the frail figure of the boy stands guard at the bedroom door to keep back the father. The outcome is not so much of a foregone conclusion as usual, and the audience is kept in some suspense till the final resolution of an effective storm scene...
Founder & editor of The Current Jewish Record is frail, earnest Sidney Wallach, 26, lately managing editor of the defunct Jewish Tribune. For active associates Editor Wallach enlisted Rabbi Louis Israel Newman as an authority on religion; Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary of the American Jewish Committee (of which the late Louis Marshall was president) as an expert on Jewish foreign affairs; and Dr. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Division of Semitic & Oriental Literature of the Library of Congress, authority on Jewish scholarship...