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Signer Mussolini toyed last week with the supposedly defunct Montenegrin question, permitted Fascist editors to slap into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
...Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii...
...skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery. "I've skinned one skunk," he said, "and now I'll skin another." Last week a jury gave Edward...
...digs and farces and innuendoes of these young Parrishes there is no telling. No situation, nobody is safe from them, especially from Sister Anne, who talks less than Brother Dillwyn but writes more. The sugary, slap-my-wrist, mother's-boy "line" she gives her J. Hartley Harrison, scoutmaster, is one of the most innocently poisonous characterizations ever done. Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid...
...Good old slap stick comedy! There is a great joy in seeing and hearing the sound thump on the pants of the retreating actor, to see all the king's horses and all the king's men fall thudding down upon the stage. Mix this with a little romantic irony and two quarters of a pint of boisterousness-result, applause. The first night audience at "The Orange Comedy" applauded often and more often. Nor was it the feeble courtesy to friend and foe 30 often a part of amateur theatricals: it came from the moist palm of approval...