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...swashbuckler should be. This is due less to his own shortcomings than to the curiosities of the story. Investigating the means whereby the Queen of France (Rosamond Pinchot) retrieves a brooch injudiciously entrusted to an English admirer, it reveals D'Artagnan as an incompetent young cavalier whose headlong efforts to combat an international intrigue are successful only because the villainess treats him with uncalled for generosity and because Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens ) interest themselves in drying him behind the ears. Good sequence: the three musketeers overtaking the coach in which Milady de Winter...
...closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. "In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed," said the judge, ordered Defendant Berkeley held on a charge of second degree murder...
Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction. Mr. Hopson would flush, sputter, say he had not understood the question. Before the end of his first day's examination, Mr. Hopson made a significant answer to a significant question: "I don't recall. You have...
Omitting the 19th Century, the mural leaps headlong into Elizabeth Arden's magnificent 20th. A carved lacquer box spills out a few samples of available cosmetics while everywhere lithe young lady Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...
...those on the blue earth last week could see of Pilot Collins was a whizzing speck, shooting headlong down out of the sky. The speck got bigger. Suddenly a wing fluttered loose from his plane and drifted away. Then the whole ship seemed to break up in midair. The motor tore out, plunged into the middle of a street. The wing landed in a field half a mile away. Spinning wildly, the fuselage fell among the tombstones of Pinelawn Cemetery...