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Colonel Satan. Booth Tarkington has turned back to the mood of his first best seller, Monsieur Beaucaire, a slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels...
...Budapest to the familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl is wooed by an important local grandee who judges her character by what he has heard about Miss Tashman. Evelyn Laye is the heroine. She is a slender blonde Englishwoman who won fame last year in the stage musicomedy, Bitter Sweet. She sings and acts nicely, and though the whole production lacks distinction it is handsomely staged and cast and embellished with the folding leg and funny face of Comedian Leon Errol. Best shot: Errol posting a letter...
...straight-eights, priced from $1,095 up for the eight, $815 for the six. De Soto. A new six and a new eight. The rear axle gear ratio has been lowered from 4.9-to-1 to 4.6-to-1 to give greater ground speed with less engine speed. A "slender profile" radiator has been added. Prices not yet announced. Plymouth. New body styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady...
...ground that he had written hostile things about them. Rather than cause friction Mr. Roosevelt gracefully declined the appointment, took instead the post of U. S. Minister to Hungary (TIME, Oct. 6). Other candidates were studied, discarded. Last week President Hoover turned to Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved...
...Tafari Makonnen, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World, Power of Trinity I, Emperor qf Abyssinia. For his spouse, the Queen of Queens, their Coronation was almost a coming out party. She is a chunky, chocolate amazon, he a small, slender, olive-skinned African Disraeli who astutely keeps her hidden. But they have much in common. Both looked on with glistening-eyed approval as "The Feast of Raw Meat" began. Lowing oxen had been driven into the courtyard of the palace until it was almost full. His Majesty's loyal...