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...shares out of one pocket and putting them in another, an impersonator of Samuel Insull demonstrates to a boobish consumer how his great Midwest utilities empire was juggled through the corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried...
...duels, a railway bridge wreck and several motoring mishaps; the statesman who was the responsible Minister of Interior when scandalously inadequate police protection made possible the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia on French soil, M. Albert Sarraut is an otherwise colorless Radical Socialist wheelhorse whose favorite mot is: "I only need twelve days to recover from anything...
...proposal for a three-year college course, mot recently advocated by Dr. Drury of St. Paul's School, demands the serious consideration of President Conant. While, a graduate must grub for years to earn a self supporting income, as an undergraduate he usually wastes an appalling amount of time...
...Ritz Bar last week smart Paris credited Mme Cecile Sorel, aged warhorse of the Comedie Franchise, and Miss Joan Warner, Pennsylvania-born "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" (TIME, July 22. et seq.), each with a new and magnificent bon mot...
...Laments for the Living by Edward F. Gardner; A. L. Jones, producer). During an intermission of The Lake, Dorothy Parker remarked to others in her party: "Well, let's go back and see Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of human emotion from A to B." This cruel mot epitomizes the spirit of After Such Pleasures, a categorical drubbing of womanhood and all its works from...