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Wearing aeronautical leggings, a white evening dress or a costume which, she says, makes her look like a moth, sleek Katharine Hepburn gives a performance in Christopher Strong which frequently brings Frankau's drawing room tragedy sharply to life. The picture-in which the title rôle is secondary-can therefore be considered a success; its purpose was to provide a glamorous background for an actress whom experts consider Hollywood's most notable box-office find since Joan Crawford. In her first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone...
...hall put up by the City of Geneva for the Disarmament Conference (TIME, March 14, 1932). Sitting down at cheap pine desks, they prepared to make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
Shortly after dusk President-elect Roosevelt docked at Miami on Vincent Astor's sleek white Nourmahal. After his twelve-day fishing trip he was tanned, cheerful, energetic, quite out of touch with affairs of State. "I haven't really seen a newspaper since I left, except the Nassau paper yesterday,"* he told reporters who crowded aboard the yacht to greet him. After dinner the President-elect got into an open automobile with Miami's Mayor Gauthier and drove to Bay Front Park where some 20,000 cheering Floridians and visitors were gathered to see and hear...
...dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell to the ground with a gruesome, final thud...
Since France had to have a Cabinet, payment or no payment, President Lebrun finally summoned the sleek, white-maned lawyer who has been M. Herriot's War Minister, famed Senator Joseph Paul-Boncour...