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...with other men, but on important Hollywood occasions von Sternberg was still her escort. It was at his counsel that she let Mamoulian direct her in Song of Songs. The picture was not wholly a success. After this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there...
...once a law-abider, always a law abider. Harvard men have stood by the new parietal rule, and they will stand by Connecticut's law. They are urged by God, by country, and by Connecticut, to leave anything indicative of red, crimson, scarlet, vermillion, magenta, or carmine at home. At the state line men will be able to purchase black and white signs saying, "Fight, Team, Fight...
...picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop of 37 in scarlet tunics and broad-brimmed hats, carrying lances with pennants, maneuvered to the tune of The Campbells Are Coming...
...special Pullmans full of muscular young men rolled out of Oakland, Calif, three weeks ago to show the East once more how to play football. But though their pants were the boldest green of the season and their scarlet jerseys were blazoned with brave green harps, the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's College showed the East little this year. They were squeezed out 7-to-6 by Jesuit Fordham fortnight ago, trounced 20-to-6 by Jesuit Marquette last week in Chicago. Meanwhile, back home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted...
...precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will's-widow that moves its eggs if they are touched, the water turkey that walks on the bottom of streams, the rare scarlet ibis, the "overdressed" white ibis...