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...Hilton Young, director of the Southern Railway and of the English Electric Co.: "The possible failure to balance ensuing budgets is probably one of the causes of the present crisis, but there is still a deeper one???the failure of the country to live within its means. We are living on our capital. That is proved by the figures of our foreign investments, which have dwindled away to the disappearance point. . . . There is no remedy in a manipulation of our banking system, our system of currency or our system of credits. . . . [They] must not be blamed for the present crisis...
...Hoffman, did not like the idea of a funeral on Easter, thought it might bring the mourners sad recollections on future Easters. Efficient, enterprising, Mortician Hoffman had an idea. Funeral services are often held at night. Wakes are an old custom. Why not?though he had never heard of one???a night burial...
...Weaken" has a chance of being a hit. For the rest, Playboy of Paris is notable chiefly for the expert clowning of Stuart Erwin and some clever detail, such as Waiter Chevalier's constant desire to wear his dress-up, braided waiter's coat instead of his everyday one???an impulse contested by his employer because of the cost of dry-cleaning. Best shot: a duel, in which the chef and bus boy of the cafe act as Chevalier's seconds...
...Road. Only a French journalist could chatter of White Slavery with such inoffensive skimming swiftness as Monsieur Albert Londres has attained in The Road to Buenos Ayres. The man is a magpie?a shrewd one???and a correspondent of Le Petit Parisien. When Argentine passport officials asked dapper Magpie Londres why he proposed to land at Buenos Aires, he blithely chirped: "Mes amis, I have come to see your souteneurs, your pimps...
Another customer would chatter away in Italian, confide an impresario's worries over people of temperament?and Carlo can still have a seat at the Metropolitan whenever he wants one???compliments of Signer Gatti-Casazza...