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Music in the Air (Fox) A small-town girl (June Lang) is tried out for the starring role in a musicomedy and for once, does not succeed. Nor does she jilt her bumpkin boy friend (Douglass Montgomery), although for a moment or two it seems likely that he will succumb to the wiles of Gloria Swanson. Instead of Broadway, the scene is Bavaria and instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with...
...country's reaction to their policies. They should at all costs avoid the danger of rejuvenating the outworn spoils system as they face the problem of allocating federal funds. From the point of view of expediency rather than of morals, they should take care lest they succumb to the temptation of interpreting the recent victory as an indication of desire for dictatorship...
Only in reference to stabilization did the President succumb to the old temptation to twit Big Business. At reports that he "did not know what it was all about" he cracked back as follows: "Let me make it clear to you that the Government of the U. S. has daily and even hourly contact with sources of information which cover not only every State and section of our own country, but also every other portion of the habitable globe. This information is more complete, informative and accurate than that possessed by any private agency...
Dean Pound, who was wearing his familiar green eyeshade, exhorted his hearers to take advantage of their opportunities. "No one will stand by with a red." Other bits of advice: "Don't be afraid of learning things that are just so." "Take reasonable care of your health." "Don't succumb to the preva- lent disposition to avoid taking part in a public discussion in a lecture-room...
...husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield, build up again their charred and blood-soaked houses...