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...some curious reason, the director started the story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...
...conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart to be true...
Though the policemen demanded a recount, General Otero was unmoved. He denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...
...executive board of Student Government decided on the move because of the "errors and confusion" attending the recent student Government election. The office of treasurer was the only post affected by last Tuesday's recount, which included ballots misplaced by the election committee in the original vote counting on March...
...Student Government at Radcliffe held its election last week and announced the results with great fanfare. Only yesterday did the fact become known that the "election committee" had misplaced 97 votes and that a recount had changed the results in one office...