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...because his ideas about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice is as suave as his pantomime and he uses it deftly, talking his own language. Claudette Colbert is cast with him and they are supported by a French cast recruited in Hollywood, where L'Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes was made...
...Edward of Wales has agreed to pay an official visit to Argentina and Brazil in March. Purpose of the visit: to drum up trade for British manufacturers in both countries. Last week he flew to Le Touquet. France, in his scarlet cabin Moth plane, played golf, was warned off a new course by one Allen Gault, greenskeeper. Suddenly recognizing H. R. H., Greenskeeper Gault suffered a mild attack...
Bishops. In the scarlet & gold audience chamber of Buckingham Palace last week George V, King, Emperor and Defender of the Faith, welcomed 30 bishops of the faith which he defends (Anglican...
...containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
...these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient...