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...appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie. The retiring president asks him to throw away the cigar. Groucho Marx casts...
Gibson's Choice. . . . When Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, President of the Conference, tried to give Ambassador Gibson the floor to urge adjournment there was immediate protest. Before Mr. Gibson could reach the rostrum Dutch Delegate Dr. V. H. Rutgers, rose shouting: "Which other delegates will participate in immediate discussion...
Thus encouraged, Ambassador Gibson started down the aisle again, reached the rostrum just as German Delegate Dr. Rudolf Nadolny rose to ask, "Does this mean that the delegates shall not be allowed to speak on the resolution as a whole...
...speak later," cried President Henderson, but by this time Mr. Gibson had left the rostrum and was perched on the edge of a chair. When the U. S. Ambassador was about to make his third start, he saw that Soviet Delegate Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov had arisen. "For several weeks, even months," observed the Russian, "several delegations have been talking continuously, while others have not spoken at all ! Unless they have lost the habit of speaking, delegates should be allowed to speak as they wish...
Such putting off was the very last thing the British and French wanted. With some coaxing Ambassador Gibson was at last gotten firmly up on the rostrum and all opposition was squelched. "My government would have preferred a resolution accepting still more definitely the details of the President's plan," said Mr. Gibson, "but the American Delegation feels the present resolution contains the maxi mum of agreement which can now be achieved...