Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band of Gypsies, is skillfully handled. In this version of the opera, the princess is taken from her father's castle by Mr. Hardy's unfaithful wife, who then rides away with another Gypsy, leaving the kidnapped child in the capable hands of Oliver and Uncle Stanley. Somehow she thrives and becomes a blonde young lady, played by Jacqueline Wells, while Laurel and Hardy demonstrate pickpocket ability that should make Harpo Marx wince...
...though undoubtedly not photographed in the Blue Grass country); as a feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated, is attractive in her round-faced way, but is more in her element when...
Monte Carlo is only in the picture for about five minutes, and the rest of the time is spent in Mr. William's courting of the Duchess, (Miss Del Rio), who has somehow got transplanted from Mexico. They have the best time together going to the English equivalent of Coney Island and masked balls, and probably other places too. The reason we are uncertain is that the sound mercifully failed at one point. The audience took the blow manfully, however...
...been in a mood to do was to read the obligations shouldered by His Majesty's Government when they signed and Britain's Parliament ratified the Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British thinking machines in motion was greatly assisted by Belgian Premier Paul...
Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a frieze of Modern Labour, for what Dorothy Parker can do by not quite using half the strength in her little finger." U. S. readers, who have long recognized Author