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Between the two passes a variety of dialogue that, if the moviegoer squints a little, can be seen to issue from their lips on little cross-stitched samplers, which just sort of hang there on the screen and give off a faint scent of sachet. Holmes: "I wish to see the owner of this doubtful establishment." Watson: "Nothing like a piece of cold steel, eh, Holmes?" Holmes: "Brisk work, Watson!" Brisk work indeed...
...senses that this reptilian type could never possibly pair off with the warmhearted heroine. Instantly the love affair loses its credibility and the picture its suspense. Nevertheless, the film conspicuously possesses Playwright Williams' characteristic virtue: a pathetic-romantic atmosphere that lingers from scene to scene like an ineffable sachet of self-pity...
...favorite maxim of Wilmer S. Shepherd, founder of the Shepherd Correspondence School of Contest Technique ("the Harvard of contest schools") in Philadelphia. Last week, Wilmer Shepherd was bubbling with pride because one of his students, Mrs. Beatrice A. Zimmer of Modesto, Calif, had won nylons for life in the Sachet Nylon last-line contest. He claims that in 21 years his students, mostly housewives, have won-through radio & TV, magazines, etc.-more than 40,000 prizes valued...
...part of international relations." To prove it the ladies gave a shower last week at the Hollywood, ILL. British Old People's Home. Amid toasts drunk in sauterne or tea, they sent a copy of Love Ledger, a bride's first-year book, and a hand-stitched sachet pillow to Princess Elizabeth...
Dillinger (Monogram) is the story of a Public Enemy No. i whose misbehavior seems so innocuous, beside the work of later international candidates, that you can almost smell the sachet along with the tear gas and gunpowder. The picture recalls how this born delinquent knocked over a string of banks, a mail train, a harmless elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough...