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...Maurice Chevalier. It is successful because of Chevalier's ability to convince his audiences that he enjoys what he is doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily have been turned into a musical comedy. As it stands it is good program entertainment, but not adequate for Chevalier...
...Dressed in a red and brown tweed knicker suit, the Prince of Wales watched the matches, chatted with the players, imitated with satirical intention the waddle of a flat-footed British galleryite, went down on hands and knees an front of the gallery to see the putting better, chewed gum...
...service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music and great speech; so that the great singer, the great instrumentalist, might have all future generations of men for his audience. So I thought...
With an expression of trepidation and constraint, Phil Scott, so-called heavyweight champion of England, got into a ring in Miami and sat down on a stool while his manager laced up his gloves. In the opposite corner Jack Sharkey, American contender, scowled ferociously and worked his gum-protector around in his mouth. It was a moment which had been preceded by weeks of intensive but not enthusiastic ballyhoo. Scott had looked very bad in training. Slow and clumsy, he had been upset several times by mediocre sparring partners. Sharkey, in fine condition, had been working as though every sparring...
With infinite caution he now rested his left arm against the poor box, and, bending down as though in profound prayer introduced the gum-tipped bone through the slot. A coin stuck to the gum. Soon it was dextrously transferred to a greasy vest pocket. Then another coin, another another-while vast St. Peter's rang with the glorious music of the Church Militant...