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Ladies Should Listen (Paramount). "Have you ever gone through the telephone book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should...
In Raleigh, N. C., a high fly floated toward Convict Dallas Brown, playing outfield in the prison nine. Convict Brown sighted the fly, ran back, back, back, and away from prison.
At dawn on the morning of May 27, 1905 the newly invented wireless telegraph began to crackle and spit on a small Japanese warship: "The enemy's squadron has been sighted at point No. 203. The enemy is apparently steering toward the Eastern passage." About 2 p.m. a grizzled...
Frank Hamer is 6 ft. 2 in., weighs 200 lb. and is reputed to be one of the best bagatelle players in the U. S. He wears a big black hat and his trousers outside his boot tops, speaks little and that little in a slow, courteous drawl. In Texas...
As the liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash...