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...fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne's portrayal of Mme Delbar, his violent, redheaded wife...
...those signs of acceptance, respectability and achievement emboldened the composite ego of the 1,500 osteopaths who attended the Cleveland convention. President George J. Conley, 64, of Kansas City, who is a doctor of medicine as well as of osteopathy, declared: "The allopathic school of medicine is appropriating the grosser aspects of the osteopathic concepts and is unfairly exploiting them without due credit, as originating in their own minds, under the names of 'body mechanics,' 'applied physiology,' 'postural abnormalities...
Twentieth Century was not even a good grosser. Even Columbia's luck for taking slipping stars and rebuilding them couldn't affect Barrymore's box office ability. Barrymore may remain a starring figure, but as far as the box office is concerned, he has never proved the sensation most people think they believe...
Very polite, very friendly, the cadets very eager both to ask, and to answer questions. Asked about the German attitude towards Roosevelt they smiled in evident admiration. "Roosevelt is a great man, ein grosser Fuhrer, amn nicht Zu sturzen (not to be deposed). We admire him very much...
...failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus tend to encourage the public ear to expect better things, or because the tenor of the age is not in tune with staccato rhythms and the grosser tin-pan melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible...