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...already intimated, Charlotte Greenwood, amazingly resourceful as Letty, and equally versatile as herself, is the raison d'etre of the show. Con- sequently, her support is rather faulty. Romaine Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within the acting should not be perfect, lost it cease to be acting. Russell Fillmore and Isabel Withers are good enough as the dim-witted, ineffectual brother-in-law and sister of the heroine. But good or bad, none of the supporting cast matters much. As the revelation or re-introduction...
...colossal. Hollywood must be an amusing place in which to spend a day or two but there cannot be many who would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful attempts at acting. Despite these failings the picture will please if you are not in too cerebral a mood...
...Central Committee presents another problem demanding adjustment. Last year two or three Houses received far more applications than they could handle, and when it developed that the Masters were unable to arrange an equitable distribution among themselves the Committee was created. Its raison deter is thus a lack of agreement between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw...
...from the dol- lar of such proportions as to have endangered the success of the policy. Hence so long as we remained on the gold standard the need for international monetary cooperation was real and pressing. With our departure from gold the whole picture was changed and indeed the raison d'etre of the conference was in large part gone. It would, of course, be to our benefit if our expansion policy were adopted by the gold standard countries. Concluding, he said, "It is, however, possible to achieve a high degree of prosperity independently. Moreover it is probable that...
Although stiffer in its entrance requirements than French 1, French 2 is of the same unfortunate lik. Occasional compositions in French, and an attempt briefly to survey the masterpieces of that tongue give it more appearance of coherence and raison d'etre than its unhappy companion, but the attitude of all concerned is one of absolute indifference and utter ennui...