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...folly and danger of such a reversion to pre-war distrust need no elaboration. Even if, however, the peril to friendly understanding between two powerful nations latent in this attitude of suspicion be over-looked, it must yet be regretted that the Transcript chose to strike so discordant a note in a day of general welcome and rejoicing...
Last week, Virginia, "the old dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
...growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
Sagely did the President of the German Republic thus allude to the present German merchant marine as a "revived fleet." The achievement summed in those two words has been prodigious, unprecedented. The victorious Allies seized from beaten Imperial Germany enough ships to reduce her pre-War merchant tonnage of 5,500,000 by almost nine-tenths, or to 600,000, yet today the merchant fleet of Republican Germany is up to 3,500,000 tons, or three-fifths of pre-War tonnage. Absolutely phenominal has been the "revival" of the North German Lloyd fleet, as statistics tell...
...films and has never done so again. The reason: she was sickened by the long and langorous close-ups which delight cinemaddicts. There are plenty of such close-ups in The Mysterious Lady. But otherwise. Miss Garbo gives a dignified and stirring performance as Russia's greatest pre-War lady spy. The man in the case (Conrad Nagel) fails to click...