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...Majesty's Government," said Sir Bolton, "in the hope that other nations would follow our lead." However, the U. S. and Japan continue to build large cruisers.* Therefore Britain, which had intended to build three small Arethusa-type cruisers (5,450 tons, 6 in. guns) and one Leander-type (7,000 tons, 6 in. guns) next year, will now build a single midget Arethusa and two whopping cruisers of 9,000 tons each, equipped with guns whose size Sir Bolton did not reveal...
What little action and plot there is in "Biography" is concentrated on Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for a sensational weekly, for she is a famous personality whose charm exceeds her ability as an artist,--the public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot...
...Julie Leander (Miss Larrimore), a "redheaded guttersnipe." runs away from her road show, her husband and child after seeing Duse in Chicago in 1918. In Manhattan she offers herself and her services to a producer in return for a part in a smart comedy. Men she picks up and drops by the hodful until a strapping socialite, not unlike Miss Eagels' husband, Yale Footballer Ted Coy, does her wrong. A play not unlike Rain, called Port of Call, in which Miss Larrimore decks herself out as vulgarly as if she were about to play Sadie Thompson, furnishes the volatile...
...front of California. Coxswain Norrie Graham of California backed his stroke up to 44. The 3 ft. grew slowly narrower. Twenty-five yards from the finish, it was 1 ft. At the finish, California was ahead, by the width of a hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England was fourth by 6 ft. more. A crowd of 95,000 saw the Olympic Torch extinguished, the 1936 Olympic Games promised to Berlin in the ceremonies that closed the most successful modern Olympiad on record. Final point score (three points for first place, two for second...
...work of many days and many men before the new type was fashioned and set up on the printing board, to spell out the fable of Hero and Leander, salvaged by the keepers of the shop from the attic of a monastery. And there is no one today who can measure the sense of high adventure with which the Venetian scholars and printers saw the heavy paper take the delicate print of the metal, the Greek myth rescued and restored by the ingenuity of the early Renaissance...