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BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner, and that this overture to womanhood causes an occasional girl to sneeze uncontrollably. That, a gynecologist might guess, was the trouble with Mary Cleer...
...should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world's illicit professionals drain...
...remorse for not including in Black Fury the scene in which a beautiful girl harangues a group of striking workers. This occurs in Stranded. When it is over Lynn Palmer and Mack Hale are happily reunited with nothing left for him to growl about except Kay Francis' incorrigible lisp. Sample speech, when Lynn Palmer is accepting a proposal of marriage: "You must never wooze you awwogance...
...reason for the presence of the New Mexicans was somewhat different. Bronson Cutting's caste marks-a broad Harvard A (he spoke with a slight lisp), clothes cut on English models, interest in such unprofitable subjects as modern music-did not make him one of them. In 1910 he left Harvard where he had been a favorite pupil of Philosopher George Santayana, who called him "Young Aristotle." He went to New Mexico to die of tuberculosis. Instead of dying he recovered and roamed over the State studying its archeology, making friends with its Spanish-speaking citizens. He already spoke...