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Thurman Arnold's economic adviser declared loudly in Washington that the insurance companies were taking in $100 of income for every $38 paid out for losses. This, he said, was prima-facie evidence that the cards are stacked against the buyer and that rates are too high...
...should be sung in. What a question! Operas are given there as they are written, in French, German, Italian. But last week the Metropolitan Opera Guild collected a jury in its famed red-and-gold interior. Critic Olin Downes argued for opera in the composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then in English (ripples of laughter). The rather frightening vote: 460-451 in favor...
...this case I have listened to arguments which might have been addressed acceptably to a court of the king's Bench in the time of Charles I. ... But in English law every imprisonment is prima facie unlawful and puts a burden on the person directing the imprisonment of justifying...
...with a private bar and a soft "a," the fast apple who daily drives up the price of Scotch and is master of both women and wit. When this 20th Century animal tackles the 20th Century problem of getting his newly-married brother (Lyle Talbot) and his reluctant prima donna bride (Anna Sten) out of their separate rooms and into the happy marriage bed, the sophisticated fur really flies and an excellent time is had by all. Llye Talbot is solid and adequate on the boards, and Anna Sten is fresh as a breeze. Half of the lines are good...
Dumbo is a taupe-colored, blue-eyed baby elephant whose outsize ears move the prima donna .elephants of his mother's circus troupe to call him a "butterfly with a trunk." When he trips on his ears during the elephant act, knocking down a pyramid of elephants and demolishing the Big Top, he is exiled to the circus Siberia: a small part (diving from a burning building into a net) in the clowns...