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...main fighting strength of the Navy took a holiday last week. In the harbors of San Pedro'and San Diego. Calif., 152 grey vessels of the combined Scouting and Battle Forces swung lazily with the tide, while ship's boats and taxi launches plied among them like water fleas carrying most of the U. S. Fleet's 45.000 personnel to shore and liberty. One night a great officers' ball was held at Los Angeles, and during the week Fleet athletic championships-boxing, swimming, wrestling, rowing, baseball, basketball-flexed the muscles and raised the shouts of bluejackets...
...Hour With You (Paramount). A memorable moment in this picture arrives when Roland Young is telling Maurice Chevalier that he has evidence that Chevalier has been misbehaving with his wife. He explains that he has had Chevalier watched by detectives. He says: "At 2:35 you got into a taxi in which my wife was waiting. At 2:43 the taxi stopped outside my house." Then, slightly apologetic for describing a sequence of events with which Chevalier must already be familiar, he stops himself and asks: "Am I boring...
...insurance fraud. Thanks to three or four obviously arch-villains who intermittently sneak about the dark corners of the stage the suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little...
...What difference does money make?" Since he was said to control the billion-dollar Kreuger & Toll pyramid with slightly over $250,000 key securities, Titan Kreuger's contempt for personal pelf was natural. His pocketbook was always quite lean, but other men seemed always eager to pay the taxi driver...
...light of his own achievements, has failed to keep pace with the march of physical accomplishments." Asked in Manhattan if he had more works in mind, he replied, "That rests with God." TIME erred when it reported (Feb. 29) that Henry W. Moltke was a San Francisco taxi driver, instead of a San Francisco policeman. But Policeman Moltke also erred when he told a local judge that he was the grandson of the late great Prussian General Hermuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke who died without issue...