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...true, a very inane but very amusing ditty called "Leander" and this, aided by the antics of the juvenile loads, manages to inject a great deal of life into the second act. But not even "Leander" can quite compensate for some turgid emotionalizing on the part of the plump and mature prima donna who by dint of some rapid fire acrobatics falls swooning into the hero's arms just as the curtain is lowered on polite but not too frenzied applause. And the hero--well, the hero is handicapped by the royal trousers, which were built for style, not speed...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...train gained headway, and plump onetime Premier Herriot, 55, almost decided to leap out without kissing M. le President. He too is plump, would understand...
Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month...
...Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities-the Arbuckle, Rhinelander, Hall-Mills and Chaplin cases-seemed a prelude almost refined. Pressing its usual policy, the Graphic had a paunchy man in pajamas and a plump girl in a film of silk underwear re-enact for Graphic cameras the more revolting moments described by Mrs. Browning. Faces of the real characters, their grievances exaggerated by retouchings, were then pasted in these photographs and the Graphic's front pages were spread with the admittedly faked results...