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...radiant Miss Tobin, the subtle Roland Young, the dashing Mr. Ralph Forbes combine in "Pleasure Cruise" to form a travelogue version of the eternal triangle. The variations on the theme are original in the highest degree, in fact there is at one point some uncertainty as to whether Miss Tobin or Mr. Young is taking the female corner of the situation. The latter's excessive skill at basting a ham and doing the housework while his wife works at the office, casts a shadow over his little menage which threatens to darken it forever. However, by devious remedies, his cuckolding...
...Hearst Press reported that one Edna Brown, 19, a British hotel waitress, swam the Thames River to the grounds of Windsor Castle, emerged "radiant" in her "youthful attractiveness" as King George V came up on horseback with two grooms. Miss Brown, "dumbfounded, curtsied"; the King bowed, asked, "Where is your boat?" He watched while she swam back. Next day the Crown Land Office wrote the hotel across the river a sharp letter. Miss Brown was reprimanded, resigned her job, then was rehired at King George's request. Headlined Hearstpapers: GIRL IN ONE-PIECE SUIT CURTSIES TO KING...
...Lunt family supplies the main entertainment of a delightful evening. Alfred is the dashing Prince Rudolph Von Hapsburg, but he really plays no part so much as that of Alfred Lunt Himself. Lynn Fontanne, relieved from her gray hair and wrinkles as Elizabeth the Queen emerged radiant and lovely in the part of Frau Elena Krug. It is not too much to say that to gaze at Lynn Fontanne, to follow her movements carefully is an experience only too rare in a world of harsh vulgarities. She does wonderfully in her part; her poise, her dress, her voice...
...Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days in Washington Blount fears...
...were down for $20,000 in the Astor will, tried to persuade the old man, now aged and retired from business, to give them the money before he died, he struck a bargain, gave them $20,000 in bonds that were at a discount of 25%. "With a face radiant with pleasure, leaning on his staff, he tottered into the back office, chuckling as he went, to tell William that he had made 'five thousand dollars that morning...