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...Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...
...glaziers clambered around wooden scaffolding busily repairing gaping holes in Vienna's great municipal apartment houses. Street-corner telephone booths, kiosks and blank walls suddenly blossomed with green and white posters of Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil Fey. From Budapest arrived sleek bespectacled Fulvio Suvich, Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who had been discussing a possible Italian-Austro-Hungarian trade alliance with the Hungarian Government. He closeted himself for several hours with little Chancellor Dollfuss, then rushed off for Rome. In Trieste, earlier in the week, Italian police suddenly arrested three Nazis...
Back in Zenith he tells his married daughter that Fran ran the house better than she. He returns to Europe to find his wife slipping from the arms of a sleek diplomat into those of an Austrian blue-blood whom, in a flare of temper, she determines to marry. Wandering around Italy waiting for his divorce, Sam finds a woman with whom he is happy (Mrs. Walter Huston). Fran's romance crashes and she calls him back, but Sam gets off the boat in time...
...Fiddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A Broadway success of two years ago, this musicomedy slides neatly into cinema. Set in Brussels and Paris, it is sleek, plausible, sentimental. An operetta composer (Ramon Novarro) meets, loves and teams up with a U. S. girl (Jeanette MacDonald) who also writes songs. A manager (Frank Morgan) likes Novarro's tunes but eyes the girl with more relish. He publishes her song, "The Night is Made for Love," the success of which enables MacDonald and Novarro to live in a glittering Paris flat. But Novarro, producing nothing himself, returns to Brussels in gloom. Miss...
...college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average of 120 out of 130 games a year, never lost a series, finally broke up for lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League...