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...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...
...shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went last year-with the possible exception of the Brazilian jungles-during an enviably carefree junket, he could hear tunes he had written for Bittersweet, and the more recent Words & Music simpering from phonographs and radios. With his own two hands, long head and (when he danced and sang for This Year of Grace in 1928-29) nimble feet and voice he has made a comfortable...
...life of an aging harlot is not likely to be much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse...
City preachers, when they get a holiday, are likely to go to the country and think about their lot. Last week a country preacher gave city preachers something else to think about. Preacher Thomas H. Rose set out with his wife for a junket in Boston, Atlantic City and New York, the last two of which neither he nor she had ever seen...
Preacher Rose's junket was the 1932 ''Distinguished Service Award for New England Pastors" given by the New England Fellowship, for purely spiritual services, to pastors earning less than $2,000 a year. Belfast born and London trained, wiry, ruddy, sharp-nosed Preacher Rose was called to the Congregational Church in small Vershire, Vt. four years ago. There was a Congregational Church at West Fairlee Centre and Preacher Rose soon took to preaching there also. Presently the parishioners of an abandoned Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three...