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While the King of Spain played polo at San Sebastian; while the King of Britain yachted coolly at Cowes; while the President of Germany saw to the launching of two great steamships before repairing to Bavaria to hunt chamois; while the President of France rested at Rambouillet prior to exerting himself in honor of the visiting U. S. Secretary of State-the President of the U. S. continued casting flies and reeling in trout in the northwest corner of Wisconsin...
...this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they are married, Dr. Lloyd becomes greedy for native...
...Coolidge prosperity," then announced record sales, new high profits. Chain stores declared June sales of $123,239,775, an increase of 21.6% over June, 1927, while their six months' gains totaled 17.2%. Prohibitionists could I rejoice at the report of the company headed by Sebastian Spering Kresge, Anti-Saloon League angel, showing $62,790,164 sales, $6,527,111 earnings, as against $55,-900,987 and $5,756,039 for the first half of 1927. But vegetarians groaned at the outstanding exception among triumphant chain store operators. Newly dedicated to the slogan, "Go Vegetable-wise," the ' Childs...
Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...
...Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good use of some of the $500,000 he gave it last winter (TIME...