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...straps, his hands dangle idle. Later, after being provoked to a second murder, he amputates the tell-tale arms. Impetuous Youth (Elizabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt). Ufa, German producers famed for Variety, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Faust and other inspired ventures, have bogged this time. Their heroine is a girl jealous of her stepmother's affection for her father. She leaves home, later flees school, to wander gypsy-like in the dress of a boy. The disguise is doubly efficient, for it conceals her femininity from the other actors, yet carefully keeps the audience apprised...
Sirs: I am surprised that your usually (and unusually) well-informed editors should say (TIME, April 18) : "Just as the original 13 American United States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia." If you don't know better the causes of the setting aside of the District of Columbia, let Mr. W. E. Woodward, whom you so much admire (TIME, April 25) tell you: "Eighty soldiers mutinied at Lancaster, Pa., in June, 1783. They marched on Philadelphia and appeared in front of the State House where Congress...
...best dressed woman in Washington; and by Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, whose wife is an able cook. At intervals people played to the Daughters on organs, bugles, harps, xylophones. Young ladies in white frocks functioned as pages, had their pictures taken with famed Daughters. Jealous young ladies not invited to usher went about Washington calling the lucky ones "D. A. R.-lings," "patriettes...
...love with one girl. The grandfather, symbol of the stern paternalism that runs with and parallel to the landowner's devotion to his soil, forces the girl to marry the less favored. The frustrated beloved goes to Paris, becomes a potent sculptor. He returns to fight the jealous brother, to die in the struggle. The acting is sincere though violent...
...Lardner has not shirked a single chance to rid himself of the reputation for "depth" which jealous fellow-writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...