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...socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible socialite herself. Before this situation, complicated by the fact that Paula falls in love with Townsend and Cynthia is determined to marry Brewster, is worked out, Artists & Models presents...
...Varro would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy...
Following the matches, which were closely played and in which Ken I. Scutemin, belived to be a Yale ringer imported from Princeton was the winner, the Harvard captain announced he would place a petition asking that the sport be made a major...
...time Mayor Angelo Rossi appeared, listened to the arguments and promptly cast his vote in favor of the statue. Out in the corridor an excited crowd almost mobbed Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
Around this melancholy setup, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has written his 45th book, a dead ringer for other Wodehouse fantasies with its collection of imbecilic gentlemen, appallingly mistaken identities, mouth-filling English slang and story that sizzles and fusses as senselessly as water spilled into hot grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star...