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...thicket near Brentwood, L. I., workmen discovered a skeleton, identified it by a repeater watch as that of Henry Lot Norton, onetime waterworks official of Jamaica, who disappeared eight years ago, died of exposure in a thunder storm...
...still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell...
Lights in a skeleton of steel glimmer above Mt. Auburn Street, where thirteen hundred men, thirty thousand tons of concrete, and fourteen hundred tons of structural steel are casting Harvard into another mould. Under the shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...
High on the skeleton tower of one of the new Houses, Mr. McCarthy has been catching rivets from Jim Maloney for many days. Fairly soon the new Buick will be paid for and the Missus can get a new spring coat. The foreman down below is enjoying a comfortable pipe between his rounds of inspection. Lots of work and more coming. Great stuff, these House Plans. If the company continues to make money this way there's no telling what new jobs might open...
...perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play six years ago is that the producers have apparently tried to turn it out too cheaply. Another reason is that it is stupidly directed. Every bone of the play's framework?skeleton that should be smoothed and hidden away under the flesh of character and detail?is carefully stressed in the important scenes in which Anna and her father and her lover are before the camera at the same time; the two men face each other at a table and Anna sits...