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...interest on the adventures of a Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag-waving, it waxes enthusiastic over the fraternal movement, as it colorfully depicts the march to Paris and the storming of the Tuileries. Louis XVI is portrayed not as a Hollywood caricature of an egotistical sot, but as the gourmandish monarch he was, with his glimmerings of intelligence and his fatal irresolution in times of crisis. Compact and clear-cut, the entire narrative is spiced with Gallic humor and fragments of eighteenth-century music...
Kaufman & Connelly separated, amicably, long ago. Connelly, Broadway has always intimated, was too "sot" in his ideas to work smoothly in harness. Of Hart, 15 years his junior, Kaufman says: "I have been smart enough as I grew older to attach to myself the most promising lad that came along in the theatre...
After the crash, an "earless man" peered over the brim of a nearby gully, fled when hailed. Police rounded up suspicious characters, trapped one ''earless man" who admitted hating railroads but who had an alibi. The search went on, also, for a sot who cursed the railroads in a saloon, finally got so mad he set fire to his cap and threw it at bystanding Chinese...
Artur Rodzinski (Sot. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Michael Leonidovitch Starokadomsky's Concerto for Orchestra, Glinka's Overture to Russian and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird suite...
Jane Toppan was a trained nurse from 1892 to 1901, reputed the best in Cambridge. Her specialty was poisoning. Her first attempt, upon a fellow nurse in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1886, was unsuccessful. Thereafter she seldom failed. Born Honora Kelly, daughter of a loony sot called "Kelly the Crack," she poisoned Captain & Mrs. Abner Toppan of Lowell, who had adopted her. She poisoned Mrs. Myra Connors, matron of Episcopal Theological School in 'Cambridge, in order...