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...places at once-in the financier's home. In addition to making it possible for Maurice Chevalier to appear on the screen in almost every sequence, this arrangement also allows him to have two leading ladies-Ann Sothern, as the music-hall comedian's jealous mistress: slant-eyed Merle Oberon as the financier's mischievous wife. If the suspense of wondering whether the financier knows whether his wife knows who was making love to her in her boudoir fails to keep the audience alert, this is also an advantage: it makes the more welcome those interruptions...
...freed from the Indian menace we are told. He might even find a well-fed mammal who not only lives in New York but was breeded there. Or better yet, he might find another Conant around Boston who could attend all the meetings and yet lend a new slant on the Harvard New Deal...
...English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain pour down your back or your chest." Of food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
...good part of the lineup for the Bates opener will be decided by the individual performances turned in this afternoon. Hence the coaching staff wanted to check up on each and every slant of the great sport of pigskin chasing...