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...went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip Graves (Donald Macdonald), is trying to persuade fresh, serious Claire Windrew (Sally Bates) to break her engagement and marry him. Hilliard & Dale proceed to the hilarious business of disrupting the household, insulting everybody with epigrams. Particularly do they insult stodgy Mrs. Windrew (Charlotte Granville). Mary Hilliard rifles her liquor cabinet ("White Rock! My favorite drink!"). She picks her perennial roses ("It'll be next year before you know it"). She breaks up her jigsaw puzzle. To make Mrs. Windrew like Philip...
...Santiago's Presidential Palace to watch Provisional President Carlos Davila sign something. The world learned only last week what it was that he signed: Chile's long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...
...threat of a duel was injected by General Balbo who lisped fiercely: "I consider this a personal insult which Signor Costamagna is at liberty to reply to in his own manner...
...other officeholders" are two members of the de Valera Cabinet who made the Governor General their "target" by leaving a dance at the French Legation in Dublin directly he appeared. This insult, according to virtually the entire Press of Great Britain last week, was intolerable. The Governor General was lauded for disregarding President de Valera's official and mandatory advice that he keep his wounded feelings to himself. Mr. de Valera assured His Excellency that if he will give timely notice of his public movements to the Free State Cabinet in the future, "no more such incidents will occur...
...service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult his intelligence, will this profession become what it should be, "nothing but the dissemination of the truth...