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...Lady of the Night is Norma Shearer. She has two roles. First she is Molly, Queen of the Bowery, who loves a struggling inventor. The inventor sells to a group of bankers a device for unlocking unruly safes. One of these bankers has a daughter, Norma Shearer. Norma falls in love with the safe-unlocker. She and Molly, double-exposed, fight it out to an interesting conclusion in a picture which tiptoes around clinches as if they were nightingales' eggs...
...manages to amuse considerably. The plot sets down in an express train a couple who have not had time to get married because their honeymoon boat leaves so soon for Honolulu. Later, arrived an airplane to speed up the [situation. Rupert Hughes was responsible for the plot; Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel were the principal performers. Miss Shearer demonstrates that she can omit emotion and still impress the watcher as a leader of the younger actresses...
...course of a number of speeches and statements designed to show the inadequacy of our Navy, Mr. Shearer has quoted letters alleged to have been written by naval officers who gave secret data* from the files of the Naval War College...
...weakness. The other holds that our Navy is outranged, outweighed, outsailed by the British and, in no small measure, by the Japanese. The holders of the first opinion include the Administration. The holders of the second are more scattered. They have been represented in particular by William B. Shearer, onetime U. S. naval expert (TIME...
...address before the Southern Society at Washington, U. S. capital, Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., found an opportunity to reply to the charges made by W. B. Shearer, Manhattan naval expert, to the effect that Britain and other Powers had not carried out the terms of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty (TIME, Nov. 24, Dec. 1). Said he: "Now there is one small point about which, if I may, I should like to say a few words tonight. Many of the Southern states have a maritime seaboard-everything therefore referring to naval matters must...