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Wrapped in a shred of muslin and tucked in a soiled sash, the Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...
...That four members of the American team should conspire to a trick quite as dishonorable as tripping or knocking down a superior opponent, that they should go to the mark prepared to carry out their miserable plot, that, when at the last moment some shred and tatter of decency stopped them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme...
Immortalized by a great poet, modernized by a clever man, vulgarized by the First National Pictures, Inc., it would be natural to suppose that the old coat could now be no more than a shred of dishonored beauty. This is not accurate. Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula. A wisecrack when uttered by a mythical king is ten times funnier than the same wisecrack offered by a drugstore cowboy...
...well to the Senior floundering in a morass of technical histories, of political histories, of diplomatic histories, of social histories, all of which revolve around the central life and spirit of a people or of an age, and none of which ever come to grips with more than a shred of the reality of history. It is to the glory of the Beards that they have succeeded as they have...
Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...