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...Divine Spark" is another Gaumont-British production built on the life of a great musician, this time Vincenzo Bellini. He has the misfortune to be portrayed by Phillips Holmes, any doubts of whose utter inability to act will be dispelled as he is seen going through the throes of tender passion, man of purpose, and artistic intensity...
...uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
Haley's own statement said in full: "A rule has been technically violated unknown to me. As the Committee feels that this violation warrants a penalty, there is nothing else for me to do but to tender my resignation as Captain of the Harvard Football Team. This is indeed an extreme disappointment and severe blow to me. However, I entered Harvard University for the purpose of acquiring an education, and I fully intend to continue and to obtain my degree in June...
...charge of Margot frowns upon her intimacy with Leda and her father. When Hendrick, apologizing for the trouble his daughter causes his mistress, casually remarks that she is not a very attractive child, Margot overhears him. When, to make up for that cruelty, they become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together. When they try to make friends with her, the temporary guardian accuses them of plotting. Pushed violently back & forth, her nerves snapped, carrying too heavy a burden of adult concerns and a fixed belief that...
...form of "money" to make sales tax payments of less than 1?, despite the Treasury's opinion that such action infringes the Federal Government's sole power under the Constitution to coin money. The States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole...