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Visiting in San Francisco, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, who never before gave a hoot for photographers, posed cooperatively, ingratiated herself with them, got herself some good publicity. Result: a picture of her in Chinatown offering a piece of candy to Hoover...
...brief stay at Harvard, Held has found other causes for grudge. "The first day I was here the reporters quoted me as branding glamor girls 'the synthetic best that a few rather addle-witted movie press agents produced for the night club columnists.' Actually I don't give a hoot whether the latest fad is the flapper or the glamor girl...
...Harkness stands for a system of teaching (tutorial) and a type of architecture (collegiate Gothic) that have made their mark on the face of U. S. education. Not everyone is pleased with Mr. Harkness' mark. Few years ago rebellious Yale undergraduates published an irreverent magazine called The Harkness Hoot, sneered at telephone booths in Yale's new Gothic buildings that looked like "confessionals." But Edward Harkness had faith in his own hunches, in the institutions to which he gave his money...
Creaky-Greeky Raymond Duncan (expatriate Paris-dwelling brother of the late Isadora Duncan), who so admires Attic culture that he wears a homespun chlamys (tunic) and sandals in all weather and all company, announced to Paris' Left Bank that he gave not one Hellenic hoot for France's war, said he would carry on as usual his courses in antique cloth-weaving, basketmaking, and rhythmics...
Rulers of the Sea (Paramount). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Lockwood in a yarn about a Scottish mechanic who invents a marine engine to replace sails on transatlantic ships, and his struggle to get it accepted. Through a welter of Scottish brrrrrrs, auld corbies, hoot mons, arson, engine trouble and coal shortage on the high seas, audiences are sustained by the foreknowledge that marine engines are now in general...