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Irene Dunne, who stepped from opera and musical leads (Show Boat) to cinema character roles that carried her from youth to grey old age (Cimarron, Show Boat), put her foot down last year, demanded comedy. Her astonishing hoe-down interlude in Show Boat indicated her aptitude for lighter things. Theodora Goes Wild gave her the first full-length try. The Awful Truth establishes her with her peers, Claudette Colbert and Jean Arthur...
Further the black cotton stockings may also be discarded in favor of lighter shades such as gun-metal and the like. However the belief of one House waitress that she might be required to wear a white uniform for the evening meal, was groundless, according to the Manager's office, for no such drastic change is contemplated. The reason for the abandonment of the head bands is simply to save an additional laundry item for the employees, according to Westcott...
...American and English short story, as well as a priceless volume for the traveler, Edward J. O'Brien's recently published collection entitled. "The Best Short Stories of 1937" is a book of unlimited appeal merely because every reader no matter how fastidious he is in his choice of lighter reading may find within its covers several stories which satisfy his tastes...
...Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records...
...Cigaret-Lighter. One of the first things Commissioner McNutt did on arriving in Manila last spring was to demote President Quezon down the toast list at Philippine banquets. Manuel Quezon's Philippines Herald promptly took to editorial baiting of High Commissioner McNutt. First indication that President Quezon's conversations with President Roosevelt, Secretaries Hull and Woodring (who, it was again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech...