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...chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
Thanks for the Buggy Ride. This is one more somewhat rickety vehicle for the comic daintiness of Cinemactress Laura La Plante. It is an antiquated wagon, moving along upon wheels of device so often employed that they squeak loudly: thus, at a picnic, pigs gobble the sandwiches; when the picnickers, a young songwriter and a dancing instructress, seek nearby shelter they are embarrassingly mistaken for a married couple, which, later on, they become. Thanks for the Buggy Ride seems to be unconscious of its triteness. It has a careless, youthful, bumptious gaiety, which gives it the quality of a nutting...
...comparatively clean with such human interest stories as: "Thirty Days to Live," "His Last Moment of Glory," "Wings of Love" (aviators), "The Salvation of a Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three. Successful seductions: none...
...confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large picnic baskets filled with perfectly preserved dates; an ostrich feather fan, chiseled alabaster vases, ushabiti (statuettes religiously reputed to perform menial tasks for the dead). King Tut, as everyone knows, was buried some time before...