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Pranks. From the start, the St. Louis gathering distinguished itself for japery. The Chicago convention of 1933 took for its slogan, watchword, wisecrack and talisman the cry: "Where's Elmer?" after Elmer Taylor, organization officer of the Illinois Department, got lost during the "40-&-8" parade. At this year's meeting so established was the phrase, everyone simply addressed everyone else as Elmer. Thousands of Elmers gave St. Louis a four-day spectacle which could not have been equaled by a combination of Veiled Prophet Night, Repeal Night, Armistice Night and New Year...
...wooden acting of Randolph Scott, it can be recommended only to cinemaddicts who find bizarre landscapes and immense improbable interiors adequate substitutes for genuinely imaginative fantasy. Typical shot: She's No. i henchman (Gustav von Seyffertitz) ducking his head and mumbling prayers when Leo Vincey shows him a talisman inherited from old John Vincey's widow...
...dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...Lehmann's musicianship are the musical friends she has made. Toscanini attends all her recitals. She is Bruno Walter's favorite singer. The now wise and settled Farrar invites her to her country home in Ridgefield, Conn. A fan Lehmann uses in Der Rosenkavalier is a treasured talisman. Farrar carried it in her glamorous days...
...veritable tycoon among kings, a political genius of the "rarest and most dangerous kind-the genius which does not wish to reveal itself as such." When Herr Bauer is taking morality as his touchstone, Leopold shrivels before one's eyes; when he is taking energy as his talisman, his subject swells to the proportions of a Cecil Rhodes. It is a tribute to Herr Bauer's book that the reader discovers himself possessed of the same ambivalent attitude toward the Congo King when he finishes Leopold the Unloved...