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...Return of Sophie Lang (Paramount) is a shipboard anecdote of a thief's (Gertrude Michael) redemption. Force opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin and his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, arrived in San Francisco from their three-month junket to the Far East, posed blithely with their shipboard chum, scrawny French Poet Jean Cocteau, who is trying to win a bet with a Paris newspaper by equaling the record of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. If he wins. Poet Cocteau writes 20 articles for the paper for "beaucoup de francs." If he loses, he writes them free...
...their governments, religious prejudices, malarial sectors, progress of rival diggers. But he was not satisfied to move colored pins about on a map. Every year he visited his digging parties by airplane. Homing wearily from his last trip, James Henry Breasted came down with a streptococcus infection on shipboard, died in Manhattan, left his Institute directorless (TIME...
...elegant haberdashery and expensive shipboard accommodations Negro Julian explained by saying that an Englishwoman has given...
...Manhattan last week arrived His Grace the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Doctor William Temple, 54, Lord Archbishop of York. This Primate of England is ecclesiastically outranked only by the Defender of the Faith, King George V, and the Primate of All England, the Archbishop of Canterbury. On shipboard the stout, brisk Archbishop received newshawks, spoke newsworthily when one of them suggested that "the church has not shown strength in recent years in maintaining world peace." Replied Dr. Temple: ''I'm afraid I don't know that the church has ever done much to keep...