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...Scarlet Pimpernel (London Films). If there is anything better suited to the cinema than the spectacle of a guillotine, dripping with blood and buzzing up & down like a sewing machine, it is the spectacle of Leslie Howard in 18th Century coattails, making gestures of polite affection toward Merle Oberon. The Scarlet Pimpernel, derived from Baroness Orczy's famed best-seller (3,000,000 copies), contains both, picturesquely inlaid against an Alexander Korda background of tumbrels, old inns, the coffee rooms at Black's Club and Citizen Robespierre, snarling in falsetto...
...scarlet pimpernel is not, as U. S. cinemaddicts may suppose, either a childhood disease or a disgraceful occupation. It is a little wildflower which Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard), head of a gang of altruistic milords who consider it their duty to rescue French aristocrats imperilled by the Revolution, uses as his signature. Versatile, altruistic, Sir Percy kidnaps deserving members of nobility on their way from dungeon to execution block. On business trips to France he disguises himself with a putty nose and the long skirts of a peasant crone. In London, visiting his tailor or attending prizefights, he behaves...
...clarifying the underwear fashion in Iowa. Of the Minneapolis flannels which he bought for $10, Artist Wood told the Press: "It was worth it. These flannels are all that I could ask. They have been washed so often they have faded into a delightful shade of red, approaching scarlet. The knees are appropriately baggy and the general effect is one of authentic droopiness...
...members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember when the Senator from Idaho had previously attended such a White House function...
...better place in which to live." And today Founder-President McCarter often finds it difficult to understand why the State so often resents his efforts to improve it. Once this year he thundered: "The fad of the day is to imprint upon the brow of success the scarlet letter...