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...Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Alexander Korda). To save a remaining few aristocratic necks from Robespierre's guillotine, Producer Korda rounds up Sir Percy Blakeney's old crowd of counter-revolutionists, sends them out after Robespierre's own head. Famous Scarlet Pimpernel was well-schooled Actor Leslie Howard. The new one is Actor Barry Barnes, who is very British, often squeaky, and leads the cast in overacting...
...rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony Adverse to make smooth their path, romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down the broad highway. In England, Jeffery Farnol's Beltane the Smith, Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, felt new life in their bones. A Dutchman named Johan Fabricius wrote his version of the old sweet song...
...tagged with the biggest batch of income tax liens ever filed in Manhattan-a total of more than $53,000,000. Filed in Newark were other liens against Associated companies in New Jersey for $5,400,000. A personal action for $1,500,000 was started against Howard ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, Associ-ated's slick, roly-poly boss...
That demmed elusive Pimpernel...
...Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson," cried jolly Judge Mack...