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Insatiable admirers of Marlene Dietrich will swarm to this, her latest starring vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert...
...word goes out: "Copey" will hold his Monday Evening on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Up swarm Harvard undergraduates to No. 15 on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall in the Yard. The room is not large; there is scuffling and grunting as places are found on furniture, windowsills and floor. Cigarets and pipes are lit. The small, bald Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory fidgets a hit, adjusts his spectacles. Some one coughs. He glares, fidgets some more, waits for silence. Then Charles Townsend Copeland begins to read aloud in a flexible voice, sympathetic with anything from Ring Lardner...
...sentenced to the penitentiary for one to five years. Fining the sons and son-in-law $1,000 each, Judge O'Connor added: "These young men did just what I should expect. . . . They did just what their father and father-in-law told them to do." A swarm of gulled depositors and investors, expecting a stiffer sentence, muttered sullenly: "It's a shame, it's a shame.'' They had often booed and heckled Banker Bain while he was giving testimony. Once he burst into tears...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...
Chairman James R. Garfield of the resolutions committee arrived from Washington to be besieged immediately by a swarm of newshawks. In the room at the Congress where his father received the choice which made him the 20th President, Chairman Garfield neatly dodged all reference to the President's Prohibition platform desire with an agility such as he once used when Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt "tennis Cabinet." He could not "speak for the President," but could speak for "responsible Republicans." He hurriedly added that Mr. Hoover was a responsible Republican...