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Sophisticated Playwright-Actor Noel Coward, attending a premiere in Toronto, Ont., advised: "There are many young playwrights who become utterly fascinated with the contents of the dictionary. They should learn to tell the story in as few and as short, simple words as possible. The sophisticated play never can hope to outrun the play best described as having simplicity...
...objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan opening by plane. Few Zenda-ites had ever been outside their farming countryside: none had ever flown. In Manhattan they were lodged at a hotel...
...Belleville, Ont., prankish striking pickets at the Stetson Hat Works forced watchful police to stand at rigid attention for 20 minutes at a stretch by playing God Save the King on harmonicas...
Quarantined in an isolation nursery at Callander, Ont. lay Emilie Dionne, third largest (31¾ lb.) of the famed quintuplets. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said the ailment was a respiratory infection, inexplicably " obtained from outside sources." Five days later her four sisters were caught in the rain and all developed colds...
Died. Sir Robert Laird Borden, 82, longtime (1911-20) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; of heart failure; in Ottawa, Ont...