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...debt payments to the U. S. The President has declared against cancellation but not against reconsideration of debtor nations' "capacity to pay." The Lausanne agreement sharply shrinks that capacity. The next step would be appeals to the U. S. to cut debts. Last week the Senate began to growl a warning to Europe. The President's dearest hope was that debtor nations would have the good sense to keep out of Washington until after Nov. 8 lest they complicate his campaign with an international issue...
...both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing speech, because...
...peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...
...application of ornithological precepts to the realties of a big game hunt is at best a futile, at worst a fatal procedure. In India, Ghandi has salted the lion's tall and has been rewarded with a growl which bodes ill for the experiment. At the outset the novelty of his methods so perplexed an administration habituated to gestures of a more conventional nature that the situation developed into a diplomatic sparring match of considerable entertainment to spectators with a taste for intrigue of a musical comedy variety...