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...feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were two hapless generals, Claude-Martin Lecomte and Clément Thomas, shot as "enemies of the people"; Archbishop Darboy of Paris and Curé Deguerry of the Madeleine, with four Jesuit fathers; batches of right-wing hostages (see cuts). In 1871 the Germans who occupied France were interested spectators. This year they...
...Again (Warner) is a re-titling of a remake of One Way Passage, Warner's 1932 tear jerker, in which Kay Francis was an ailing beauty whose serious heart condition was aggravated by a first-glance passion for an escaped murderer (William Powell). This time the tragedy of hapless love is played out against the heartless magnificence of a trans-Pacific luxury liner every throb of whose propeller carries George Brent nearer death by hanging, Merle Oberon nearer death from angina pectoris. Cinemactress Oberon spends much of her allotted time philosophizing about eternity. When not listening, George Brent spends...
...Ulen's Varsity swimmers returned to Cambridge yesterday with their eighth and ninth consecutive dual meet victories in tow. The latest was an easy 62 to 13 conquest of the hapless Penn mermen in Hutchinson Pool Saturday, the fourth straight league win for the Ulenmen...
...surprising Yardlings ran up 63 points for their fourth straight win against a hapless team from Dean Academy, which only netted 19. Larry Hall, tall forward, came through with 15 points to earn himself a total of 39 in the last two games. Charley Royer led his teammates with 18 points, only one less than the number scored by the other team...
Notes between the notes: After years of mayhem committed on a hapless public, Guy Lombardo has finally relented and convinced brother Carmen that someone else should take care of the Lombardo lyrics. Nominee is a bird by the name of Mert Curtis, who used to sing for Russ Morgan. . . . Victor claims that it is going to swipe Duke Ellington, Horace Heldt, Kay Kayser, and a couple of other bands away from Columbia records in February. All we can say is that this record racket, which totalled 70,000,000 sales last year, is really getting vicious...